A heat map showing where the problems were reported indicated the majority came from New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Seattle, where Amazon is headquartered. However, the outages ...

The outage, and some of the Web sites taken down by it, closely mirrors a similar cloud outage Amazon suffered in April, although Monday's downtime was much shorter in duration. According to ...

AWS S3 might have left much of the internet down, but Amazon itself was able to rise ... All in all, the outage affected 54 of the top 100 internet retailers, according to Apica's estimates.

If there's one thing that the Amazon S3 outage of February 2017 taught the builders of Java cloud applications, it's that cloud computing platforms are not immune to catastrophic failures. And while ...