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March 14, 2024, saw a massive disruption of Internet connectivity in several African countries. West Coast African countries affected include Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Benin.

It was reported that the disruption was due to several submarine fibre optic cables being cut. These cable systems are the West African Cable System (WACS), Main One, South Atlantic Telecommunications 3 (SAT 3), and ACE.

On May 13, 2024, Main One reported the successful completion of repairs and the full restoration of services on its cable. The nearly eight-week mean time to repair and fully restore services highlights the vulnerability of critical submarine fibre optic cable infrastructure, which circumvents the continent and links it…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Wednesday morning, which took down several popular websites including Netflix, Doordash and Hulu, marking the second time in a week the cloud hosting service has failed. 

The Amazon-owned platform began experiencing problems around 10:24am ET, with users citing the website, hosting and server connection as all having issues. It returned to full service shortly after 12:20pm ET. 

Only a few countries, including the US, China the UK and India, reported problems, which were less widespread than the prior outage.

On December 9, Amazon Web Services went down for seven hours and took several other websites with it that use the company’s cloud servers.

However, DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows…