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An Amazon outage nearly took out the whole internet. Here’s just how big it was.“Pretty much everything that uses IT services has some connection to the cloud,” Chapple said in an interview with Huffington Post. “So when you have one of these massive data centers having an outage, you’re going to see effects all across the economy.”
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Fed struggles to assess state of US economy as government shutdown shuts off key dataFinance professor Jason Reed discusses how the U.S. government shutdown has hindered data collection and reporting that impacts decision making.
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Finance professor questions how NBA figures found themselves in gambling scandalFinance professor emeritus Richard Sheehan weighed in on the NBA illegal gambling schemes in a Fox News interview.
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Inside the nondescript Virginia warehouse that wiped out the internet with one outage… and the neighbors who warn the next one is just a matter of time“DynamoDB isn’t a term that most consumers know,' said Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame. 'But it underpins the apps and services that all of us use every single day.'
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An AWS outage impacted your favorite websites. It’s now been resolved.Mike Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame, said in a statement to USA TODAY that the incident is a reminder of the world's dependency on a handful of cloud service providers, including AWS.
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AWS ‘returned to normal operations’ after major outageCybersecurity expert Mike Chapple told the Associated Press that a "slow and bumpy recovery process" amid an outage like this is “entirely normal.”
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Massive Amazon cloud outage has been resolved after disrupting internet use worldwideCybersecurity expert Mike Chapple said about the AWS outage in an AP News article, “a slow and bumpy recovery process” is “entirely normal.”
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Amazon says recovery continues but problems persistWhile it seemed the worst had been resolved, a new series of “cascading failures” seems to have arisen during the last few hours, according to Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at Notre Dame University.
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Amazon says web services have largely been restoredMike Chapple, tech security expert and academic director of the Notre Dame MSBA, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal piece about Amazon Web Services disruption.
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