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Amazon Web Services had a major five-hour outage this week that affected thousands of corporate customers
The problems started with the US-East-1 region, hosted in data centres in Northern Virginia. The incident took out thirty-three of AWS's services including nine services which failed completely: Athena, EMR, Inspector, Kinesis Firehose, Simple Email Service, S3, WorkMail, Auto Scaling and CloudFormation.
As a result of this many hundreds of thousands of cloud-based applications and websites were forced offline.
Amazon has made a statement claiming that an...