Disruption in Amazon's cloud service ripples through internet

Reuters ----- Web users experienced widespread glitches on Tuesday, from news sites to government services, after Amazon.com Inc's popular cloud service that hosts their data suffered a technical disruption. Amazon's Simple Storage Service, or Amazon S3, had difficulty sending and receiving clients' data for more than 3-1/2 hours, according to company status reports online. Amazon did not disclose the cause, and some of its smaller cloud applications in North America continued to have trouble. The far reach of the disruption underscored the increasing dependence of organizations on the cloud for cheap and secure data storage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's biggest cloud business. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.