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GoDaddy Resolves DNS Connection Issue

GoDaddy has resolved a DNS disruption which occurred on Thursday due to an unidentified technical problem, affecting website and account access for some users. Continue reading

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Amazon Says Employee Error Caused Tuesday’s Cloud Outage

Amazon.com Inc. said efforts to fix a bug in its cloud-computing service caused prolonged disruptions Tuesday that affected thousands of websites and apps. Continue reading

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E-Commerce Firms, Financial Services Companies Biggest Losers in AWS Outage

E-commerce companies and U.S. financial services firms lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the AWS outage earlier this week. Continue reading

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AWS Outage Shows Dangers of Single-Cloud Reliance

Not a single cloud vendor is too big to fail, as the AWS outage on Tuesday proves. Continue reading

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AWS Takes Down Hundreds of Sites in Massive S3 Outage

Availability issues with the US-EAST-1 region of AWS’ S3 storage service caused downtime or slow performance for many websites on Tuesday. Continue reading

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