What to know about how a massive Amazon cloud outage exposed the internet’s vulnerable backbone
Cybersecurity
A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth’s computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system. But despite it’s omnipresence, most users don’t know what — or where — the cloud is. Here is what to know about the data centers in Northern Virginia where the outage originated, and what the malfunction reveals about a rapidly
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