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EPISODE · Oct 21, 2025 · 6 MIN

'Broke half the internet': Amazon cloud outage lasts 15 hours, triggering global chaos

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A massive internet outage has taken out thousands of websites, apps and services globally. The technical fault originated with U-S data centres operated by Amazon Web Services, which controls 30 per cent of the world's cloud computing market that underpins web-based services like apps and websites.

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