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CA sues plastic bag makers over false claims, Uninsured Altadenan determined to rebuild, Voter registration deadline for special election— Afternoon EditionA massive outage at Amazon Web Services disrupted major websites and apps today in a show of how one company's online infrastructure has become essential for many modern businesses to function.
Tech experts tell NPR the incident highlights just how vulnerable companies are to these kinds of outages.and Fortnite. Financial service companies like Coinbase, Robinhood and Venmo also reported disruptions, as did the companies that operate the chatbots Perplexity and ChatGPT. Amazon said its main website was affected. United Airlines, Canva, Reddit and Flickr also acknowledged problems with their websites. The Associated Press, NPR andAmazon's cloud computing service, AWS, is like an invisible scaffolding that helps much of the internet function. AWS lets companies store and manage data online using its database service DynamoDB, which was the service affected by the outage. "In other words, they rent out their cloud computing resources to others so they can serve their own customers," says Chang Lou,contained an error , which took down the service in Northern Virginia. The error within that update then caused a chain reaction of service failures and disruptions. Amazon says it has invested more than $50 billion in data centers in the state, which is home to the largest cluster ofBetsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert and the director of the Aspen Institute's Policy Academy, says there are pros and cons to companies using Amazon or another big provider for cloud computing. They offer strong cybersecurity protections and convenience. "We all have an incentive to use the big companies because they're so ubiquitous, and it's easier for us to access all of our data in one place.""That's great until something goes wrong, and then you really see just how dependent you are on a handful of those companies."Amazon is a financial supporter of NPR and it pays to distribute some of NPR's content. Microsoft and Google are also NPR financial supporters.
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