Where things stand now
• JUST IN: Amazon says it’s experiencing more connectivity issues affecting its cloud computing services unit AWS.
• Amazon has previously reported it “fully mitigated” an earlier outage that disrupted several popular websites and apps across the world including Snapchat, Facebook and Fortnite. Downdetector, which tracks internet disruptions, said it had received 6.5 million reports from users worldwide.
• Banks and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and AI firm Perplexity also reported issues as did US airlines Delta and United.
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A major outage of Amazon Web Services servers affecting multiple websites Monday morning prompted immediate calls for Europe to boost its tech sovereignty.
Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were among the affected sites. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers cloud servers that allow these services and millions of other websites and platforms to run.
Brussels is in the midst of a debate on how to achieve digital sovereignty, and what that means exactly, with cloud services at the center of the conversation. EU leaders are expected to take a position during a high-level summit meeting later this week….
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“Europe’s dependency on monopoly cloud companies like Amazon is a security vulnerability and an economic threat we can’t ignore,” Cori Crider, executive director of the Future of Technology Institute, said in an email….
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