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Major Apps, Sites Taken Down During Amazon Web Service Outage
A prolonged outage of Amazon Web Services sent shockwaves to consumers across the country as it brought down many major apps and sites, sending parts of the Internet to a screeching halt on Wednesday afternoon.
The service, which is one of the world’s largest that processes massive streams of data, caused errors and outages, prompting engineers to get to work to attempt at finding a fix for the problem.
Affected sites included Roku, Adobe Spark, Flickr, the New York City Transit Authority, and multiple news outlets.
In a statement to The Verge, Amazon said the culprit was its Kin…