Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers cloud servers that allow these services, and millions of other websites and platforms, to run. AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides the infrastructure underpinning much of the internet.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. AWS Auto Scaling is a service that automatically adjusts the number of compute resources in your application to maintain performance and control costs.

If laziness really is one of the virtues of a great programmer, then AWS Lambda is like a developer’s holy grail. With Lambda, you don’t have to spin up any servers, or configure or patch them, or pay for them to run hour after hour and week after week.

It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites on Oct. 20.