Are these incidents related ? Somehow I think so.

Last week it was disclosed by cybersecurity company F5 that they were hacked by the Chinese .

Breach at US-based cybersecurity provider F5 blamed on China, Bloomberg News reports (https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/breach-us-based-cybersecurity-provider-025442185.html)

Users are still vulnerable
F5 breach exposes 262,000 BIG-IP systems worldwide (https://securityaffairs.com/183606/security/f5-breach-exposes-262000-big-ip-systems-worldwide.html)

Monday morning Amazon services went down . It took all day to restore services .

Major AWS outage takes down web services like Snapchat and Ring (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amazon-web-services-outage-websites-offline-rcna238594)

And it wasn't just "leading games, publishers, streaming platforms" as the article suggests . Major companies including financial institutions were affected .
Amazon outage: Every website knocked offline by the huge AWS outage | TechRadar (https://www.techradar.com/computing/internet/amazon-outage-every-website-knocked-offline-by-the-huge-aws-outage)

This comes at the same time that the Chinese are accusing the US NSA of hacking " to steal sensitive information from devices of the National Time Service Center"
China Accuses US of Cyberattack on National Time Center - SecurityWeek (https://www.securityweek.com/china-accuses-us-of-cyberattack-on-national-time-center/)

Experts blame the Amazon issue to an IT issue rather than malicious intent .

I don't believe in coincidences .