Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage — and the global disruption it caused — underscored just how reliant the internet has ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

Amazon says its systems are back online again after connectivity issues persisted Monday. But reports of problems with Amazon’s cloud computing services unit AWS continue.

Monday’s disruption uncovered the vulnerabilities of the internet’s computational infrastructure that is concentrated among ...