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Today, we're talking about Tuesday's massive internet outage,

an appeals court allowing President Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.

U.S. leaders in Israel to shore up a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire

and other top news for Wednesday, October 22nd.

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The internet had a costly hiccup Monday. In Amazon Web Services, aka A.W.S. Outage around 3 a.m.

knocked out a good chunk of the web, including Amazon, Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, and even deltas and United's airline reservation systems.

AWS powers roughly one-third of the internet, making it the world's largest cloud provider

followed by Microsoft and Google. The glitch, which was traced to AWS's DNS, which stands

for domain name system, and its Northern Virginia Data Center,

left at least 2,500 companies offline and is estimated to cost hundreds of billions of dollars

globally. The disruption took most of the day to fully resolve. Amazon says no cyber attack was

involved, just an internal network monitoring misfire.

Experts say the outage underscores how reliant the internet has become on a few giants.

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