Opinion: The AWS outage exposed the cloud’s flaws: Here’s how to protect it

Monday's massive outage shows just how important it is that cloud companies act now to fix this critical infrastructure.

One Tech Tip: How to prepare for outages that impact our online lives, from banking to chatting apps

An Amazon Web Services outage on Monday disrupted many online platforms, affecting banking services, chat apps, and more.
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AWS Outage Hit Schools Hard. How to Prepare for the Next Tech Meltdown

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is a cloud computing service run by Amazon. It reported issues early in the morning on Oct. 20 ...
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How to use AWS CodeBuild to make macOS apps

CodeBuild is an Amazon Web Service tool for automating the building of software. Now you can use it to build macOS and iOS apps. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive set of cloud computing ...
InfoWorld

How to make the most of AWS Lambda

There are many options for deploying cloud-native applications and services. Organizations developing large numbers of applications and services on different platforms and with varying compliance ...

Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services?

Amazon's cloud computing service experienced a major outage Monday, disrupting many online services, including Snapchat, ...
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This Week's AWS Crash Made Smart Beds Overheat, Get Stuck In Wrong Position

Smart mattress brand Eight Sleep is working on a new failsafe for future outages after customers were unable to make changes ...
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How to make the most of the AWS free tier

Free is a powerful incentive. When I taught a course on web frameworks at the local college, we designed the assignments to ensure that all of the experiments could be done quickly with Amazon Web ...