OpenAI turns to Amazon in $38B cloud services deal
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Thousands of websites and apps like Snapchat, Roblox, Ring and more were down or experiencing issues Monday morning as a major cloud computing service went offline.
A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system.
A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.
The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.
OpenAI has reached a new “partnership” worth $38 billion with Amazon Web Services (AWS) — its first ever deal with the world’s leading cloud infrastructure provider.