Mark's 11am Monologue.

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4.3 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Amazon's web services outage has caused disruption for tons of websites and programs overnight leading into this morning.

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0:00.0	News breaks out in every show.
0:05.0	Mark Simone on 710 WOR.
0:12.0	Hey, lots to get to this hour. You know, a lot of stuff is up there on that Amazon cloud.
0:20.0	A lot of business and all sorts of stuff operates through that Amazon Cloud.
0:24.9	So there was a widespread disruption early this morning of the Amazon Cloud computing service
0:31.5	that took out dozens of major airline services.
0:35.5	Social media sites went out.
0:37.1	Do you know that Snapchat went out?
0:40.3	Did you know there still was a Snapchat?
0:42.4	Did you know that somebody was still using Snapchat?
0:46.4	Fortnite video games were disrupted.
0:48.4	The chat app signal, which is that's used by a lot of government officials.
0:54.6	It took three hours totally out and it slowly started to recover and came back.
1:03.0	Online outages include Snapchat, Fortnite, the McDonald's app, down detector.
1:09.9	Well, that's the problem.
1:11.6	Everything, you know, goes more and more and more digital.
1:14.9	You can knock out more stuff with one bad outage.
1:18.9	So the mayoral race, hey, there was a mayoral debate.
1:22.6	Is this Saturday Night Live?
1:23.7	Yeah, Saturday Night Live.
1:26.3	You know, it was the first week on Saturday Night Live where the opening
1:29.4	sketch, the cold open, as they say, not political.
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