The internet seems to be crippled today
These days, when the internet goes down — it really goes down.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Amazon Web Services (AWS) — the backbone of much of the modern web — experienced a major outage, knocking out a long list of high-profile sites and services.
AWS reported what it called an “operational issue” impacting “multiple services,” and confirmed that engineers were “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.” At one point, over 70 AWS services were affected — a reminder of just how deeply this single company is embedded in the infrastructure that keeps our world online.
By 3:35 a.m. PDT, AWS announced the issue had been “fully mitigated,” saying most systems were now running normally.
Still, it’s hard not to think about how fragile our digital lives have become.
When one company sneezes, half the internet catches a cold.
