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• Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The outage that hit Amazon Web Services and took out vital services worldwide was the result of a single failure that cascaded from system to system within Amazon’s sprawling network, according to a post-mortem from company engineers.
• The series of failures lasted for 15 hours and 32 minutes, Amazon said .
• Network intelligence company Ookla said its DownDetector service received more than 17 million reports of disrupted services offered by 3,500 o
• A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions