By America-Today    November 19， 2025

That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably

feeling very relieved that Monday's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies

and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.

The places hit by the outage vary significantly. It took out major social media

platforms like Snapchat and Reddit, banks like Lloyds and Halifax,

and games like Roblox and Fortnite.

AWS is a US giant with a large global footprint, having positioned

itself as the backbone of the internet.

It provides tools and computers which enable around a third of the internet to work,

 it offers storage space and database management, it saves firms from having to

maintain their own costly set-ups, and it also connects traffic to those platforms.

That's how it sells its services: let us look after your business's

 computing needs for you.