When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.

Amazon employees said they were left in the dark during a massive outage ,' fueling claims the tech giant tested a so-called 'kill switch.'

The widespread internet disruption was the latest illustration of the fragility of the global technology infrastructure.

Amazon reportedly has a plan to replace more than half a million U.S. workers with “cobots,” and avoid hiring at least 160,000 human workers by 2027.

Amazon is reportedly planning to replace over half a million jobs with warehouse robots.

During an Amazon Board briefing last year, executives said that shifting to robot automation can help the company avoid hiring nearly half a million people.