Written by Lexx Thornton On Monday afternoon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) finally confirmed it had resolved a massive cloud hosting outage that had caused widespread disruption for millions of internet users globally. The event, which Reuters called “global turmoil,” was reportedly the worst outage since last year’s CrowdStrike incident. As the world’s largest cloud provider, AWS is, as ZDNet put it, the “backbone of much of the Internet.” The disruption affected more than 28 AWS services, leading to an estimated loss of billions in damages, according to one analyst’s estimate for CNN. The impact was immediate and extensive: Popular services
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