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From CNN, I'm Aaron Matheson, with the five things you need to know for Monday, October 20th.

Millions of people around the world have been impacted by a major internet outage. with the five things you need to know for Monday, October 20th.

Millions of people around the world have been impacted by a major internet outage.

Banks, airlines, media, Snapchat, Facebook, and Fortnite were all temporarily affected by the outage of Amazon Web Services, otherwise known as AWS.

It's a cloud computing provider that hosts many of the world's most used online services.

And AWS says the problem has now been, quote, mitigated.

It's not yet clear what caused the disruption, but it only lasted a few hours.

Todd Bishop is the co-founder of Technology News website Geekwire,

and he tells CNN it could have been much worse.

I would describe this in the sense of an earthquake.

You know, this was effectively, I'd say maybe a 3.0 magnitude or 4.0 magnitude earthquake,

sort of a reminder for these services that rely on AWS, that they really need to do better

to shore up their infrastructure,

to have the kind of redundancy that will prevent them from being reliant on AWS for when the big one happens.

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