Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in its Elastic Compute Cloud, but made an exception on Tuesday with the announcement it is offering ...

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers ...

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

You might have seen that AWS had a global outage on Monday which caused problems across the internet. But what is AWS anyway, and why does it matter so much?

Welcome back to our series on how Ars Technica is hosted and run! Last week, in part one, we cracked open the (virtual) doors to peek inside the Ars (virtual) data center. We talked about our Amazon ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...