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    Amazon Web Services

    ‘The reality is it’s all very concentrated’: AWS outage exposes the world’s internet chokepoint, one data-center cluster in Virginia

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    By Safiyah Riddle, Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
    October 21, 2025

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