How an internet outage caused mass disruption across America

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  Good morning. It's Tuesday, October 21st.

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  I'm Shamita Vasu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, the Supreme Court weighs a pot smoker's right to bare arms.

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  and an incredible breakthrough for blind patients.

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  But first, to what exactly just happened with everyone's internet.

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  Yesterday, there was major disruption and mass outages as Amazon's cloud computing service,

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  AWS, faced technical problems they struggled throughout the day to resolve.

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  Because so many of the world's biggest companies rely on AWS, you probably felt some disruption,

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  either with managing your finances, your social feed, or just ordering a coffee.

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  The first companies that gained attention for this outage were Starbucks right in the morning.

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  So immediately when I logged on this morning and looked at different news coming in,

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  searches were spiking for why is the Starbucks app down?

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  And the answer was the AWS outage.

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  That's Ben Goggin, deputy tech editor at NBC, who we spoke to about the outage.

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  Amazon throughout the day.

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  kept saying that the issues were improving and it was implementing fixes.

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  But every time that they would say that, more issues would present themselves.

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  The outage tracker service down detector thinks more than 2,000 companies were affected,

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