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Summary
本周一，全球最大云服务器亚马逊AWS发生故障，引发大规模互联网中断。用户无法正常使用社交媒体、在线购物及银行账户查询等服务，CNN总部制作人员也需紧急寻找替代素材。此次 outage 造成全球范围影响，包括航班延误、学生无法访问学习软件、工作受阻、线上线下支付困难及预约医疗服务失败等，预计经济损失达数千亿美元。AWS占据全球37%的云计算市场份额，加上微软和谷歌，三家共占60%的市场，凸显互联网对少数基础设施提供商的高度依赖。目前AWS服务已恢复，但具体故障原因尚未公布。
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Here's a categorized list of English words formed with the suffix “-age”, grouped by their meanings or functions. This should help you see patterns and uses more clearly.
🧱 Result or Outcome
These words describe the result of an action or process.
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Remains of something destroyed
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The result of spoiling (e.g. food)
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The amount something has shrunk
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The act or result of leaking
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A period when service is unavailable
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🔄 Process or Action
These words describe ongoing actions or systems.
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The extent or process of covering
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The act of passing or a route
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The act of splitting or a split area (also used in anatomy/geology)
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📦 Collective or Quantity
These refer to a group or amount of something.
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Luggage or metaphorical burdens
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Items carried during travel
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Collective remains of destruction
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🏠 Place or Location
These words refer to a physical or metaphorical place.
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A place where ships anchor
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garer (French: to shelter)
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A place to store vehicles
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These refer to money paid for services.
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Fee for using a road or bridge
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Fee for transporting goods
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Fee or act of carrying goods over land between waterways
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🧬 State or Condition
These describe a state of being or condition.
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State of being bound or enslaved
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saboter (French: to damage)
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Deliberate destruction or disruption
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Full text
What's up, Sunshine? Welcome to the show. I'm Coy Wire. This is CNN 10 and it is your word Wednesday. We chose one of the words you submitted to help make us smarter today and write the show. So listen up now. Our lead story of the day is that global internet outage that turned most of our digital worlds upside down earlier this week. Many of us had trouble surfing social media, shopping online, maybe even checking our bank accounts on Monday. That's because the world's biggest internet cloud server, Amazon Web Services, was down. AWS powers some of the world's most popular websites and apps, and its outage disrupted the daily activities of businesses and individuals alike. You should have seen it here at CNN headquarters, producers of show teens were scrambling to find videos and photos that they could use rather than just have their news anchors on camera the entire time. Because the system, it just wasn't working. Thousands of companies and millions of users around the world were impacted. Our Claire Duffy has more. Hi, Claire.
Hey, coy. Yeah, this outage was a real wake up call about just how reliant so much of the internet has become on a small number of core infrastructure providers. We just sort of accept it as normal at this point that if companies want to start a website or an app, they're probably not hosting it on their own computers or servers. Instead, millions of companies rent that server space from Amazon Web Services. And most of the time, that makes life easier and cheaper and more secure for those companies.
Unless you have an outage like we saw on Monday and then you have this sort of single point of failure that comes from the cloud computing provider and the widespread disruption that we saw on Monday. I mean, I for one, was unable to order my Starbucks on the app or play the whirl, but the disruption was much more significant. We saw flight delays, we saw students unable to access the software they need for school or workers unable to do their jobs normally, people unable to pay for things online or in person, people unable to make doctor's appointments. And this happened globally. That's why the financial impact of this outage is expected to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars in lost consumer spending and lost productivity.
Now Amazon isn't the only player in this market, but it is the largest cloud computing provider. It serves around 4 million customers, holds around 37% of this cloud computing market. And if you take into account the other two big players, Microsoft and Google, between those three companies, they hold 60% of the cloud computing market. That is just a massive swath of the internet that is dependent on these three companies.
Now Amazon does say that its services should be back up and running normally, and we do hope to get more information from the company on exactly what the root cause of this outage was. Back to you.
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