Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services has explained what went wrong to cause the major ...

It wasn't funny for anyone who couldn't access regular online destinations, or for the engineers trying to fix the problems, but Monday's massive Amazon Web Services outage was something of a comedy ...

A widespread outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) temporarily took down dozens of major websites and applications Monday, underscoring how deeply the cloud computing giant is embedded in the ...

An AWS software bug briefly caused some customers to see estimated cloud bills worth billions—and even trillions—of dollars in the AWS Cost Management Console, though actual usage and final invoices ...