For what felt like forever on Monday, Oct. 21, the internet’s pulse flatlined. Food-delivery apps froze, Fortnite gamers got booted mid-battle, and Venmo payments disappeared mid-transfer. Most would have guessed a massive cyberattack or hack,

Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?

Microsoft Azure: Microsoft's cloud computing services is only second to AWS in terms of global market share. Microsoft obviously uses its own cloud infrastructure, but plenty of other companies do too, including Ralph Laruen, Best Buy, Procter & Gamble, Coca Cola, Abercrombie & Fitch, and even local, state, and federal governments.

AWS DynamoDB/DNS fault in the US-EAST-1 region caused widespread outages, disrupting apps, banks and public services while engineers restore access

Vice President Bob Wambach of Dynatrace says global economy's dependence on cloud providers creates risk of systemic outages lasting hours or days.

Snapchat users reported login failures, Fortnite players encountered server errors mid-game, and Canva's design tools froze for creators worldwide.

Although Amazon has long provided various methods for accessing AWS services from the command line, one of the best options involves using the AWS Tools for PowerShell to make AWS services accessible through the PowerShell interface. Unlike the normal AWS ...

From Aurora DSQL and Amazon Transform to the second generation of AWS Outpost and a new quantum computing chip, here are the 10 hottest new products from AWS launched in 2025 so far. From new quantum chips to a slew of artificial intelligence and agentic ...