Experts raise concerns over internet’s reliance on just a few companies after AWS outage | ABC NEWS
A glitch with an Amazon data centre in the US has brought half of the internet’s traffic to a standstill.
Amazon says services have now been largely restored, but the major outage knocked out websites and popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.
Experts say it’s highlighted how reliant the world is on just a few big cloud-computing companies.
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