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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Monday, October 20th.

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon Web Services has recovered from a far-reaching outage that disrupted services

from retailers to social media apps, with sites like Venmo, Facebook, Slack, United Airlines,

and more reporting disruptions.

The AWS infrastructure provides cloud computing services for millions of sites,

and any issue can have major impacts on the wider Internet.

Many services have been restored as of this morning.

Amazon earlier said it was investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in a region

of data centers on the East Coast, centered on Northern Virginia. The Wall Street Journal was

among several media organizations affected by the outage. The auto industry is being rattled by a

series of supply chain issues, including the semiconductor shortage and the Trump administration's

tariffs.

Assembly lines producing high-end Jeep SUVs in a Michigan factory came to a halt last week

and will not resume production until early next month due to an aluminum shortage.

Ford has paused production at three plants for the same reason, leaving thousands of workers

collecting unemployment between the two automakers.

Although U.S. car sales are still on pace to outperform 2024, next year doesn't look as promising.

And the UK Competition and Markets Authority says the $3.7 billion merger between Getty images

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