Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, fueled by accelerating growth in its cloud computing business and strong spending by its customers looking for low prices at a time when inflation is resurging.

Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.

A major internet outage Oct. 20 has caused issues accessing popular websites like Fortnite, Reddit and SnapChat. Here's what's happening.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

The company said that while the issue has been resolved, some services may experience a backlog of messages while it works to process them over the next few hours.

The Amazon Web Services outage that, at one point, saw Amazon Music, Prime Video, Alexa, Signal, WhatsApp, Snapchat, IMDb, Disney+, Fortnite, Roblox and Wordle down or suffering slowdowns, has been resolved.

An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

When Amazon Web Services experienced an outage last week, companies across the globe were affected. The episode illustrated how reliant we've become on a handful of internet infrastructure providers, but pales in comparison to what could happen with the ...