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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used.

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A company you’ve probably never heard of caused half the internet to go dark

Vox

Swaths of websites went down on Tuesday morning after an outage at the cloud computing services provider Fastly. Internet users were unable to access major news outlets, e-commerce platforms, and even government websites. Everyone from Amazon to the New York Times to the White House was affected.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. He did not acknowledge the AWS outage that impacted a large swath of the internet last week. Nor did he seek to alleviate concerns about Amazon Web Services’ market power.

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Project Kuiper plus AWS: How Amazon’s cloud and satellite internet ventures mesh

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure, which includes satellite ground stations, could come in handy for supporting Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation. “We’re benefited a bit at Amazon by having this very good and reliable cloud service called AWS,” Limp said. AWS Photo).

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Top Website Design Companies in India For Design & Development Web Services

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Top Website Design Companies in India For Design & Development Web Services - Information Technology Blog. However, choosing the best website development company from thousand is indeed a challenge. Ideamagix is a web designing and app development company. Creaa Designs.

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Analyst: Only a matter of time before U.S. cloud companies shut off services in Russia

GeekWire

A flurry of tech companies — including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are halting sales of services and products in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting government sanctions. tech giants could take it a step further and cut off access to Russian companies using their cloud computing services.

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Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps, is experiencing a major outage affecting a large portion of the internet. RSS is one of the companies affected by the AWS system outage. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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