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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Charlotte Gallagher and in the early hours of October 21st, these are our main stories.
Amazon says a glitch that took thousands of apps and websites offline on Monday has been resolved.
An interim report blames a defective cable for the funicular crash that killed 16 people in Lisbon.
Part of the White House is being demolished to make way for President Trump's new ballroom.
Also, in this podcast, what future does Hamas have in Gaza?
And we hear about the pioneering project that's helping opioid addicts in Las Vegas get clean.
Chit Amazon Web Services on the east coast of America rippled around the world on Monday,
bringing down thousands of apps and websites.
It affected more than 2,000 companies, disrupting banking and social media sites,
as well as Amazon's own retail operations.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the market in what's known as cloud computing.
But critics say this outage is proof that something needs to change.
Here's Ed Amoroso from the cybersecurity and analysis firm TAG InfoSpear.
We live in an era right now where we are very dependent on the cloud providers.
So we need them to be at the top of their game and today Amazon was not.
Amazon says the issue has now been resolved.
Our North America technology correspondent, Lily Jamali, told me more about the problem.
A nightmare for Amazon as well as all the users out there and even businesses who run their websites using Amazon Web Services.