A cloud application is an internet-based software that processes or stores data online. There are three primary kinds of cloud applications.

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.

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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.

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Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

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The city’s federal suit, filed today, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has tied long-standing funding that pays for cybersecurity tools, hazmat suits, first responder salaries and more to “unlawful conditions” outlawing the city’s “diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts. Read more here.

The AWS partnership is OpenAI's first major cloud computing deal since it struck a new agreement with Microsoft, which gave it more flexibility.