What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...

Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud

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

Amazon says it has resolved internet services outage that left websites and apps lagging around the world

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline ...

Global platforms hit by major Amazon Web Services outage affecting users worldwide

A massive technical failure at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has triggered global outages across some of the world’s most popular ...
CBS News

Internet Problems: Amazon Web Servers Are Down

(CBSDFW.COM) - Amazon, the nation's largest cloud computing company is currently reporting "high error rates" in one region of its S3 web services. A number of ...
Business Insider

Why everything from Netflix to Nintendo goes offline when Amazon's servers have issues

Amazon's web-hosting subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, had major issues this week. The outage had widespread ripple effects on a variety of services hosted by Amazon, from Netflix to Tinder. It was the ...