An outage at Amazon Web Services on Monday took hundreds of services across the globe offline, demonstrating how extensively the internet relies on the cloud service provider owned by Amazon to run smoothly.
Amazon Web Services grew out of the internal technology infrastructure that the internet retail giant built to support its diverse and often unconventional needs. That technology became very good at handling huge numbers of users doing complex, demanding, data-intensive operations, like streaming video, running web applications and storing huge…
