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October 21, 2025An 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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October 20, 2025AWS ‘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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October 20, 2025Massive 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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October 20, 2025Amazon 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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October 20, 2025Amazon 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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October 20, 2025AWS services recover after daylong outage hits major sites“DynamoDB isn’t a term that most consumers know,” Mike Chapple, IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business , said in a statement picked up by CNBC. However, it “is one of the record-keepers of the modern Internet.”
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October 20, 2025The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?“The reason these events attract much more notice is because of their impact,” cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple told CNN. “If a single company experiences an issue in their data center, it causes issues for that company’s products and services.”
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October 20, 2025Bringing community engagement back homeNew Frontlines Practicum brings dynamic business solutions to Notre Dame’s neighbors.
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October 20, 2025Massive global outage linked to Amazon’s cloud company
Cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple discussed the global internet outage linked to Amazon's cloud company, AWS.
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