so i don't really know computer and/or internet

but how come when amazon goes down like 1/4 of the internet goes down? what's like… what is happening there? i don't know what AWS or cloudflare or any of those things do, just that when they go down it fucks up the web

edit: thanks for the explanations! now i get it. corporate-level web hosting basically

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@goaty everyone's stuff runs on amazon's servers basically. If you wanna make your stuff accessible to anyone all over the world it's much easier to rent their stuff and have them manage running your application around the globe than deploying your own stuff

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