Several major companies, including the Associated Press (AP) and the McDonald's restaurant chain, also faced serious problems due to the closure of AWS (Amazon Web Services).
Amazon Web Services, the ubiquitous cloud computing provider responsible for powering much of the Internet, suffered a very bad collapse yesterday. For obvious reasons, this was bad news for the masses of websites and businesses that rely on this service to run smoothly.
AWS provides large-scale data storage and data processing services for much of the Internet — which means that when it goes down, most of the Internet doesn't either.
As is usually the case with such outages, many large companies operating in all walks of life — from the Associated Press to McDonald's to Reddit — were left in a state of massive digital chaos for several hours.
The AWS outage first made headlines Tuesday afternoon when it was revealed that dozens of websites were not working as they should. Amazon quickly posted details of the outage on a public dashboard, which revealed that the outage affected the company's US-East 1 cloud region. at the same time, Down detector It was full of reports about different web services and websites. By early Tuesday evening, the company said most of the issues had been resolved.
The incident once again highlights the need for businesses to prepare for these types of service outages and develop alternative solutions to ensure service continuity.
It is extremely important for businesses to protect their infrastructure and data in order to reduce the risk and impact of such incidents on the business.
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