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A major disruption to Amazon’s cloud computing platform Monday exposed the fragile nature of digital dependency. When technical problems knocked the service offline, the ripple effects touched millions: Video gamers found themselves locked out of Fortnite, financial institutions experienced service disruptions and numerous other companies saw their operations grind to a halt.

The outage began in Amazon’s US-East-1 region in northern Virginia and rippled through global internet infrastructure — affecting everything from finance and entertainment to health care scheduling and restaurant payments [1

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