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Content management systems such as WordPress and Quintype also affected, hampering major news websites and blogs
AWS is struggling to recover from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites, along with some of the world's most popular apps.
Amazon's AWS faced a major outage affecting thousands of websites and popular apps globally. After six hours, partial recovery was noted, but issues persisted. Originating from AWS's US-EAST-1 site, the disruption underscores the risk of over-reliance on few cloud providers.