The Day the Cloud Cracked: AWS Outage Exposes Fragility of Centralized Internet

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-day-the-cloud-cracked-aws-outage-exposes-fragility-of-centralized-internet . AWS crashed for 15 hours taking down Snapchat, Fortnite and 2,500+ companies. 11M users affected. What went wrong. Check more stories related to data-science at: https://hackernoon.com/c/data-science . You can also check exclusive content about #data , #aws , #amazon , #ai , #good-company , #argentum-ai , #cloud-infrastructure , #web3 , and more. This story was written by: @ishanpandey . Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Amazon Web Services (AWS) went dark for 15 hours on October 20th. The outage affected over 11 million users and more than 2,500 companies. The problem traced back to domain name system issues. The DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) market is surging.