Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?

Ericsson says it has constructed a simpler way to connect to secure Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers through Cloud Connect, an integrated component of its IoT (internet of things) Accelerator.

Some 2,000 companies were affected by the outage with more than 8 million people reporting issues.View on euronews ...

Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?

Venmo users reported issues on Monday morning, Oct. 20, after an Amazon Web Services outage triggered widespread issues.