'The Internet is on fire:' Massive AWS outage shows how fragile our modern world is

Amazon's cloud service went dark on Monday and took a big chunk of U.S. business and products and operations down along with it. Here's the latest on how it happened, what the fix would be, and how concerned we should be about it happening again.

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