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Rachelle Abbott

Podcast: Amazon Web Services seeing 'signs of recovery' - but what happened?

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A huge internet outage caused widespread global disruption on Monday, with a number of major websites and apps experiencing significant service issues.

The issue was linked to a problem on cloud computing provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Major organisations such as HMRC, Lloyds Bank, Ring Doorbell, Snapchat, Slack, and Fortnite were among those affected, with outage monitoring website Downdetector reporting a massive spike in errors, 6.5 million in total worldwide.

To find out more, Tech & Science Daily spoke to Sir Keir Starmer’s former Senior Digital Adviser, Antonio Weiss, who is now a senior partner at The Public Services Consultants, where he specialises in using AI, data science and new technologies to design effective public services.

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