Amazon, Cloud Outage and Disrupting Internet
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In 2024, 97 per cent of people in the EU aged 16-29 years reported using the internet every day compared with 88 per cent of the total population, a difference of 9 percentage points (pp). This gap has been consistently narrowing during the past decade.
A median of 34% of adults in 25 countries are mainly concerned about AI's growing use in daily life, while a median of 16% are mainly excited.
A major internet outage hit on October 20. Snapchat and many other popular apps like Roblox and Canva stopped working. Users could not log in or load messages. The disruption was caused by problems at Amazon Web Services.