Elizabeth Warren Blasts Amazon For Internet Meltdown, Says ‘If A Company Can Break The Entire Internet, They Are Too Big’
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On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called to break up Big Tech after a massive Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services outage disrupted access to dozens of major platforms, including Amazon delivery services, Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS) Disney+ and McDonald Corporation (NYSE:MCD) app.
Following reports of widespread disruptions, Warren reposted a list of affected companies on X, formerly Twitter, writing, “If a company can break the entire internet, they are too big. Period. It’s time to break up Big Tech.”
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Her remarks came after it was reported that Amazon’s AWS outage had temporarily taken down major websites and apps such as Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT), Ring, Robinhood Markets, Inc (NASDAQ:HOOD), Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) Snapchat.
Government websites in the U.K., including Gov.uk and HM Revenue and Customs, also experienced outages.
Amazon did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for comments.
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Amazon confirmed that the disruption stemmed from a DNS resolution failure in its DynamoDB service at its Northern Virginia (US-East-1) data center—the company’s largest.
The failure caused elevated error rates and latency across multiple services, including EC2, Lambda and RDS, affecting customers worldwide.
AWS engineers said they began restoring functionality within hours, with full service returning early Monday morning.
“Most requests are now succeeding,” Amazon said in an update at 5:48 a.m. PDT.
At the time of writing, Downdetector showed that in the U.S. some users were still reporting AWS-related issues.
Source: Downdetector
Warren’s comments came amid renewed debate over Big Tech’s dominance. Earlier this year, a federal judge declined to force Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google to divest Android or Chrome in an antitrust ruling.
The decision was criticized by Warren as a “slap on the wrist.”
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