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EPISODE · Oct 21, 2025 · 5 MIN

Paul Spain: tech commentator on the economic impacts of the Amazon outage

from Best of Business · host Newstalk ZB

Problems with Amazon's cloud services in the US have been felt around the world. Thousands of websites and apps were affected by an outage during the night, including TVNZ Plus, Neon, Sky TV, Snapchat and Wordle. Tech commentator Paul Spain says a lot of things got broken in the process of trying to undo the damage, and some businesses are still trying to recover. "When you break a lot of technology, sometimes it takes quite a bit of effort to actually get that fully back to operation, and possibly Amazon have been a bit cautious about putting thing back up to full speed, but they haven't officially indicated that from what I've seen."  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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