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

Users are still vulnerable
F5 breach exposes 262,000 BIG-IP systems worldwide

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

Major AWS outage takes down web services like Snapchat and Ring

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

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

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

I don't believe in coincidences .