Amazon's Cloud Unit Issues Apology, Explains How Rare Software Bug Triggered Global AWS Outage This Week

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Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) cloud unit AWS has issued an apology and outlined an explanation for the major outage that affected over 1,000 websites and services on Monday. The outage affected a ...

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