{"id":86789,"date":"2025-10-20T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/86789\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:17:07","slug":"snapchat-roblox-and-lloyds-bank-hit-by-amazon-web-services-internet-outage-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/86789\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outages like this can take down a lot of services we rely on, cloud boss sayspublished at 14:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:54 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8a56b741-3660-44f5-912c-8b5c3d50e4ce.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cloud sharing company boss says today is a &#8220;bad<br \/>\nday&#8221; for Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Prince&#8217;s business Cloudflare uses cloud-based<br \/>\nsoftware to help websites and apps connect and remain secure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to Radical with Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4, Prince<br \/>\nsays that although there are &#8220;amazing things&#8221; about relying on cloud<br \/>\nsharing technology, &#8220;if you have an outage like this it can take down a<br \/>\nlot of services we rely on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cSome of the companies were able to stay online, but that<br \/>\ncomes with complexity and cost and not everyone makes those decisions,&#8221; he<br \/>\nadds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ultimately though, Prince says, today&#8217;s Amazon outage<br \/>\n&#8220;is not a big deal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, the tech boss says he&#8217;s worried about<br \/>\n&#8220;governments intentionally taking the internet offline&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If that gets normalised that&#8217;s a bigger risk to the<br \/>\ninternet,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outages like this can take down a lot of services we rely on, cloud boss sayspublished at 14:54&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-86789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}