Let's get to the three things you need to know today. 00:08 Julie Hyman First up, a massive Amazon web services outage, taking down major websites and platforms with it overnight. 00:15 Julie Hyman ...

We begin with Amazon Web Services, which says it’s narrowing down the cause of today's massive outage. The government shutdown hits day 20 as Australia inks a lucrative deal with the White House.

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning. Researchers reflecting ...

When a service that powers vast swathes of the internet experiences an outage, the shortcomings of putting all your eggs into one basket become abundantly clear. When Amazon’s AWS infrastructure went ...

If you have a smartphone or are familiar with the internet, you may have noticed that things weren't quite right yesterday – a huge AWS outage took out the hundreds of services that rely on its cloud ...