2025-10-21
26 分钟Computer says no. I had a shift at 3.30am.
There were people standing outside like the whole store is down.
What happened was an overload of the internal routing and re-routing systems.
It's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
This is Andrew Peach on the way.
We'll hear how hundreds of websites and apps were knocked off line and when they'll be back to normal.
Also today a five-year plan for China's economy and billions of dollars of investment in San Francisco.
Let's start though with that disruption to the internet around the world today.
Dozens of major companies reported significant disruptions overnight.
Massive outage.
It's hit hundreds of popular websites and apps.
Maybe you noticed this morning.
A major global outage impacting so many popular websites and apps like Amazon,
Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite.
Amazon's cloud computing firm says there are still problems now for some services after that outage that knocked out hundreds of websites and apps,
Snapchat, Duolingo, Roblox, among them.
This Amazon worker in the US detailed the disruption when she got to work early this morning.
And when I got here at 3.20, there were people standing outside.
I'm trying to sign into my app and it's not working.
I'm walking up and I hear the people from inside saying that the app is down,