#northern-virginia

#northern-virginia

A massive outage at Amazon Web Services disrupted major websites and apps on Monday, in a show of how one company's online infrastructure has become essential for many modern businesses to function. Amazon said it was fixing the problem but some disruptions were still ongoing as of Monday evening. Tech experts tell NPR the incident highlights just how vulnerable companies are to these kinds of outages. Here's what to know about what happened and why a single outage could be so damaging.

"Gerry lived his life to give back to others and make our community better. He looked out for the disadvantaged and voiceless."