DualBird Raises $25 Million to Redefine Data Processing for the AI Era with Cloud-Native Hardware-Software Engine

Backed by Lightspeed and Bessemer, DualBird delivers hardware-grade acceleration in the cloud with a simple plug-in - making data workloads 10x-100x faster and 50-90% cheaper BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS / ...
CNN

How a tiny bug spiraled into a massive outage that took down the internet

A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update ...
CNET

That Massive AWS Outage Explained: Failures and Fixes Tripping Over Themselves

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor ...
Futurism

AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI

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.
The Verge

Eight Sleep adds ‘outage mode’ to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen

Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed positions while while Amazon’s servers were down. Thousands of Eight Sleep owners were unable to adjust temperatures or bed ...
Yahoo

Amazon says a DNS error caused the AWS outage. What does that mean?

Amazon's data center in Ashburn, Va. (Ted Shaffrey/AP) Amazon says Amazon Web Services, its cloud computer service that powers many of the internet’s most popular apps and websites, has fully ...
The Washington Post

Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners

Banks failed to transfer their clients’ money. Gamers lost their streaks. Peloton riders struggled to log into classes. For a few hours early Monday, a service ...
PC World

These smart beds began roasting their owners during AWS outage

Owners of Eight Sleep smart beds got anything but a good night’s sleep Monday, as the beds began heating up uncontrollably while also getting frozen in position due to Amazon’s worldwide server outage ...
Engadget

Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

It felt like half of the internet was dealing with a severe hangover on October 20. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon ...
TechCrunch

Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal

An outage on Monday affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), which took out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the ...
Hindustan Times

AWS outage: Will there be compensation to customers? Here's what we know

The effects of the AWS outage, which has affected more than 1,000 enterprises, may last for days, even though it appears that a recovery is (slowly) advancing to completion. The AWS outage has ...