A major cloud outage Monday disrupted services across the globe, offering a reminder of how dependent we are on just a few tech giants. “Amazon Web Services is one of the foundations of the modern internet,” said Shaddi Hasan, assistant professor of ...

Snapchat’s interest in more widely licensing song catalogs comes as social-media rivals have been introducing popular new music features on their apps. LONDON (AP) — A problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the ...

LONDON — A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world Monday, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms. The disruption and ...

NEW YORK — Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games. About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web ...

SAN FRANCISCO -Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web’s most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

As soon as online photo storage startup SmugMug Inc. heard about Amazon.com Inc.’s Simple Storage Service, an online data storage repository that debuted on March 14, 2006, “my eyes got all big,” co-founder and Chief Executive Don MacAskill said at the time.

A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world Monday, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming, and financial platforms. About three hours after the ...