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Amazon Web Services Outage Borks the Internet Again

Gizmodo

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the web-hosting service that powers, well, most everything online suffered its third outage this month on Wednesday morning, bringing giant chunks of the web crashing down with it.

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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. Vice reported the ban this morning, the day after a sweeping report alleged Pegasus was used to target the phones of human rights activists and journalists. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used.

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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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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. We are actively working with AWS and will report when the issue has subsided. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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What CIOs Can Learn From An Upgrade Of Inflight Web Services

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Since they could not be connected to the Internet when they were in flight , they were released from their obligations. What Does It Mean To Access The Internet From A Plane? With new satellites, this is all changing.

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Spotify, Discord, and a Ton of Other Web Services Are Down Right Now

Gizmodo

Spotify, Discord, and Snapchat were all experiencing issues on Tuesday, with early reports indicating that a brief Google Cloud outage could have been the culprit. Read more.