- In what looks like a major global outage, an issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is affecting how South Africans use the internet.
- AWS says it is exploring multiple methods to resolve the issue and may have already identified the problem.
- It is yet another example of how the internet is hinged on a small number of corporations.
*UPDATE:
According to AWS, it has begun recovery and users worldwide can expect services to begin returning to normal.
“We continue to observe recovery across most of the affected AWS Services,” the company’s status page reads. “We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered. We continue to work…
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Fun South African Fact: South Africa is part of BRICS.
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Fun South African Fact: For nearly 50 years, there was a state of apartheid – white minority rule – in South Africa.