When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google provide most of the support for much of the world’s internet functions, meaning even minor issues for one company can quickly become more widespread and affect

YouTube is down for thousands of users in the United States on Wednesday afternoon. DownDetector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users' reports, showed massive outage with YouTube services,

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is escalating its battle with Microsoft Corp. for corporate customers, adding two new products designed to keep businesses online if Microsoft 365 productivity software goes out of service.

AWS’ global outage that shut down applications, websites and businesses was inevitable, says DataRobot CEO and former AWS and Google Cloud leader Debanjan Saha.

An early Monday outage at Amazon Web Services took down dozens of online sites and services, including Amazon’s e-commerce site, Prime Video, and Alexa and Ring services, Google’s Gmail, Snapchat, and Lyft,