A single outage in Virginia broke services for 2,500 companies and affected 11mn users. Here’s how that’s even possible and why it matters for when you go online
Of the 38 regions that Amazon Web Services (AWS) operates, one — the US-EAST-1 cloud region in Northern Virginia — went down for about 15 hours on October 20, slowing down or knocking out services for more than 2,500 companies and affecting 11mn users across the world.