An issue at an Amazon Web Services data centre in Virginia on Monday led to disruption of internet apps and services around the world
The internet broke again but nobody seems to care.
On Monday morning, somewhere deep in the bowels of an Amazon Web Services data centre in northern Virginia, something happened that brought large swathes of the internet to a shuddering halt.
The shortlist of applications and services that stopped working or did not function properly included Snapchat, Reddit, Slack, Zoom and Venmo. Websites went down, flights were delayed and Amazon deliveries were also disrupted. It is estimated that 1,000 companies were affected by the outage, as were millions of users.
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