"The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage may have started at a data centre in Virginia, but its effects were felt by millions worldwide."
"Apps for banking, e-commerce, smart home devices and social media slowed, glitched or completely shut down."
"With so much of our lives dependent on cloud services from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, do consumers need more options?"
An AWS outage originating in a Virginia data centre caused service failures experienced by millions globally. Apps for banking, e-commerce, smart home devices and social media slowed, glitched or completely shut down. The event demonstrated how concentrated dependence on a handful of major cloud providers can allow localized infrastructure problems to cascade into widespread consumer disruptions. The outage raised questions about resilience, redundancy, multi-cloud adoption and the adequacy of current contingency planning by businesses and service providers. Consumers faced interruptions to essential services, showing the operational and economic risks tied to centralized cloud reliance. Consideration of alternative providers, distributed architectures and regulatory measures may be needed to reduce systemic vulnerability.
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