Telstra's problems in Australia continue with Amazon Web Services outage

Friday didn't start well for Australians already struggling with a huge mobile and Internet outage.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud services platform that supports the websites and data storage of companies around the world, suffered issues on Friday morning following a nationwide Telstra outage.

Telstra, the largest telecommunications company in Australia, had a massive network outage across the country on Thursday night and into Friday morning.

The down time caused mass chaos, with 8 million customers unable to use the Internet, data or make phone calls and affected services such as EFTPOS, electronic systems, banks and Uber. Following the incident, Telstra issued a grovelling apology and offered a day of free data to its customers.  Read more...