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FiveAA Mornings: more of the overnight outage

One of the world’s biggest outages occurred when Amazon’s Web Services fell down. What happened, and will it happen again?

The internet came to a bit of a standstill on October 20 when several servers and data-centres seemingly stopped talking with web browsers and apps, but what really went on?

If you’ve heard about the AWS outage, but can’t make sense of what the words or acronyms mean, Pickr’s Leigh Stark joins FiveAA’s Graeme Goodings to explain, while also delving into whether this will remain a problem in the years to come.

Hear what he had to say on the issue of the AWS outage with October 21’s show of Mornings with Graeme Goodings from the 102 minute mark (1 hour 42 minutes).

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