Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images When ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...