Internet down: What made Amazon's cloud empire falter?
A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage recently disrupted services globally. Amazon has since apologized to affected customers worldwide.
What made the cloud giant stumble? A single "race condition" bug caused the widespread disruption. This technical issue brought Amazon's vast cloud infrastructure to its knees.
Businesses felt the sting of the global internet pause. Smart beds and countless other services suddenly stopped working. The outage impacted many businesses around the world.
Amazon's cloud services are now reportedly back to normal. However, the incident highlights the fragility of our interconnected digital world.
Experts will likely scrutinize the event to prevent future, more damaging cloud failures.
