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Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.
In the latest trading session, Amazon (AMZN) closed at $216.48, marking a +1.61% move from the previous day.
Rohit Kulkarni, Roth MKM senior analyst and David Kennedy, TrustedSec founder, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the AWS outage, the fallout of past outages and much more.
An outage at Amazon's cloud computing unit was gradually easing on Monday, after disrupting many online services offered by banks, social media companies and businesses.
Many popular internet services, from streaming platforms to messaging services and some banks, went offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's crucial cloud network.
Amazon Web Services experienced more connectivity issues on Monday morning, the company said in a blog post, as the service continues to recover from a major outage that saw disruptions for popular apps and websites across the internet.
CNBC's MacKenzie Sigalos reports on how the outage in Amazon's busiest cloud region rippled across industries, exposing single-point vulnerabilities in the modern web and adding pressure on AWS as it trails rivals Microsoft and Google.
The digital universe collectively breathed a cautious sigh of relief today as Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it has fixed the fault behind a global outage that took down thousands of websites and apps. The cloud giant confirmed that systems are stabilising but warned that a full recovery will take time while it clears a backlog of requests.
Amazon Web Services says it has fixed the massive outage reported Monday (Oct. 20). That outage impacted millions of people and large portions of the internet around the world, with — according to various published reports — Facebook, Reddit, Robinhood, Venmo, Verizon, Lyft, United Airlines, Ring, Snapchat, The New York Times, Fortnite, Roblox and the McDonald's app among the sites whose users encountered problems.
Amazon stock (NASDAQ: AMZN) has performed strongly, rising 27% over the last six months. This impressive rally can be attributed to several factors: stronger-than-expected Q2 earnings, the accelerating growth of its AWS cloud business despite increased competition, expansion in its high-margin advertising segment, and growing confidence from financial analysts.
Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the hundreds of sites and services that were affected when AWS went down, causing a major internet blackout.