Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing offering that makes money by charging businesses to host websites and other applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a wide-reaching outage on Tuesday afternoon, which affected countless major websites. While the company says the issue is largely resolved now, the outage lasted about two hours. The AWS health dashboard said, “Our engineering teams were immediately engaged and began investigating. We quickly narrowed down the root cause to be an issue with a subsystem responsible for capacity management for AWS Lambda, which caused errors directly for customers.” The wide-reaching outage affected a number of websites across the internet, including media news, how do we mitigate the effects of cloud outages ?