The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services , a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and underscoring the fragility of a system reliant on only a handful of tech giants.

Monday's problems at Amazon Web Services, or AWS, spawned 11 million total outage reports, with 3 million reports stemming from U.S. users, Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, said on Facebook.

While other cloud providers support the world's businesses — including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure — AWS has the largest foothold in the market. Since it debuted in 2006, the company has grown to control 38% of the cloud computing infrastructure market, according to research and

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