If you've been having problems using just about any service on the internet this morning, then you're not alone. Amazon suffered a serious outage earlier today, and that caused a bunch of issues with Amazon Web Services — the part of the company involved in web hosting and cloud computing.

Amazon Web Services said the massive internet outage that originated in its cloud-computing data centers has largely been fixed, more than 13 hours after an initial shutdown hit businesses big and sma...

“Amazon had the data safely stored, but nobody else could find it for several hours, leaving apps temporarily separated from their data,” Mike Chapple, a teaching professor of IT, analytics and opera...