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The daily chance for slow-moving thunderstorms leads to the chance for flooding

Tuesday evening’s storms are leaving hundreds of people without power.

Thousands are without power in Virginia after severe storms hit our region overnight.

Thousands are without power after severe storms rolled through the region overnight.

It’s the latest of several recent AWS outages that took down large chunks of the digital economy. Two weeks ago, service problems tied to malfunctioning network devices created issues with Amazon’s Ring home security business and other cloud-based applications. Another outage the following week was resolved in less than an hour. Last year, huge swaths of the web were knocked offline after the company’s Northern Virginia servers became overwhelmed, affecting access to Ring and iRobot, among others.

Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia were among organizations that reported outages.