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The internet had a costly hiccup Monday. 

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage around 3 a.m. knocked out a good chunk of the web, including Amazon, Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, and even Delta’s and United’s airline reservation systems. AWS powers roughly one-third of the internet, making it the world’s largest cloud provider, followed by Microsoft and Google. 

The glitch, traced to AWS’s Domain Name System (DNS) in its northern Virginia data center, left at least 2,500 companies offline and is estimated to cost hundreds of billions of dollars globally. The disruption took most of the day to fully resolve.

Amazon says no cyberattack was involved, just an internal network-monitoring misfire. Experts say the outage underscores how reliant the internet has become on a few giants—when one cloud sneezes, much of the web catches a cold.

Verse to consider when outages leave you frustrated… “A patient person shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.”
Proverbs 14:29 (CSB) (read full passage)