When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to ...

The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web. Monday’s meltdown illustrated the world’s ...

In a detailed explanation on Thursday, AWS said the outage was a cascading failure triggered by a rare software bug in one of the company's most critical systems. The issue was centered in the ...

Unless you’ve been on a “digital cleanse” this week, you know that Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major outage at the start of the week. You know this because apps and sites you use were down.

The outage that hit Amazon Web Services and took out vital services worldwide was the result of a single failure that cascaded from system to system within Amazon’s sprawling network, according to a ...