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As many of us have our head in the clouds for Halloween that is on a Friday this year, something spookier has grabbed folks’ attention this week. On Monday October 20th, people noticed that something was off. Social media apps taking minutes to send messages or to send at all, streaming shows not loading properly, difficulties in sending deposits through Venmo, or even grabbing a drink from Starbucks and their POS systems are down. The cause: AWS had an outage that lasted for over half a day on Monday (great way to start off the week amiright?) For many, frustration and eagerness took over as they could only wait for this to be resolved. But just how many internet services and applications were affected?
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