THE DAY THE INTERNET FELL OVER If your apps died this morning - blame the cloud. Specifically, Amazon’s. AWS (Amazon Web Services), the invisible backbone of half the internet, suffered a massive global outage, taking down Snapchat, Fortnite, Facebook, Coinbase, Perplexity AI, and enough websites to make the web feel like it was 1999 again. The crash rippled worldwide. Alexa stopped listening. PlayStation went dark. Even corporate dashboards flatlined. For hours, the digital economy’s central nervous system just… seized. Amazon says it’s found the “root cause” and is “working on multiple paths to accelerate recovery.” Translation: engineers are sprinting through server farms praying the lights come back on. AWS isn’t just a cloud - it’s the scaffolding of modern life. When it breaks, the world’s apps, stores, games, and money all hang in the same digital void. Today’s outage is a reminder: The internet isn’t decentralized. It’s one big machine with a single point of failure... and Amazon just sneezed. Source: CNN