The AWS outage brought the internet to a crawl - here's what the experts are saying

• An AWS outage caused issues across much of the internet
• The issue is largely resolved, but questions have been raised
• I've collected expert insights into the outage and its consequences

On October 20, many popular business, gaming and banking services erupted into chaos after Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered an "operational issue".

Payments were declined, servers went dark, and the services that many of us rely on slow to load or downright unresponsive.

While the problem seems to have been largely fixed now, many experts are pointing out the fragility of the internet, and the reliance on just a few cloud service providers for some of the worlds most vital systems.