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Amazon outage disrupts lives, surprising people about their cloud dependency

Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle. (AP) — Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle. (AP)

4 min read . Updated: 08 Dec 2021, 09:02 PM IST SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN, The Wall Street Journal

When Amazon Web Services was interrupted, some vacuum cleaners, light switches and cat-food dispensers stopped working

Kyle Lerner and his girlfriend sensed something was amiss when they came home Tuesday and found their two Persian-Himalayan cats meowing nonstop.

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