AWS outage highlights risks of centralized internet architecture

Dear ladies and gentlemen, first, this recent event (AWS global outage) has sparked these important discussions of companies and individuals relying heavily on only a small group of companies providing cloud services (Microsoft, Google and Amazon). Second, this incident has highlighted both the technical and political ramifications of this heavy reliance of big firms only, especially centralised cloud services. My company is currently developing a new solution, which will be coming out soon before the end of the year. Stay tuned for further updates.

Could not agree more, Stuart — the cloud didn’t eliminate the need for resiliency planning; it multiplied it. Too many organizations mistake “outsourced infrastructure” for “outsourced responsibility.” But when AWS sneezes, entire ecosystems catch the flu. The dependency web is deeper, the blast radius is wider, and the recovery expectations are brutal. Resilience isn’t about where your data lives — it’s about how fast you can recover when your “always on” provider suddenly isn’t. Yesterday’s AWS outage wasn’t a reminder to distrust the cloud — it was a wake-up call to diversify, document, and drill your failovers like survival depends on it. Because it does. #OperationalResilience #DisasterRecovery #CloudStrategy 

https://lnkd.in/gMn6yYxy So many lessons, so little time. However, in my opinion, the biggest lesson of this and other cloud failures is that making your business dependent on outside resources, in particular a single provider, is a recipe for disaster. It's amazing how many businesses have shoehorned their business processes into "public cloud" (spoiler alert: your cloud resources are owned by a private corporation which is probably actively competing against your core business), leaving them vulnerable to this kind of failure.

“Some applications with automated failovers in place were restored within five to 15 minutes, which is commendable” post-mortem continues on Monday’s AWS chaos which highlights need for robust Disaster Recovery - multi cloud, synchronicity & mirroring Cirata https://lnkd.in/dvidiQmv

When a single cloud provider stumbles and half the internet goes dark, it's no longer just an inconvenience (it’s a structural vulnerability). This week the AWS outage reminded us just how centralized our digital world has become... Thousands of platforms, from banks to public services, vanished temporarily due to a glitch in one region. Not exactly what “high availability” is supposed to mean. It turns out that relying on a handful of providers to carry the weight of global infrastructure may not be the bulletproof strategy it once seemed. Convenience is great (until it breaks). Resilience doesn’t come from trusting one provider. It comes from diversifying risk, decentralizing architecture, and planning for failure like it’s inevitable (because it is).

Today's AWS outage reminds us of an uncomfortable truth: our digital systems rests on invisible dependencies. A single misconfiguration, a network disruption or a cascading failure in a major cloud provider can send shockwaves across the globe halting both startups and giants alike. Critics will point to these incidents as proof that we've become too dependent on centralized infrastructure. Yet, paradoxically, the cloud remains the most reliable option we've ever had. Outages are spectacular because they are rare and amplified by the scale of what they power. Before the cloud, similar failures happened silently in server rooms. Hardware would fail, backups would break and disaster recovery plans often existed only on paper. Cloud computing didn't eliminate failure, it industrialized resilience. It brought redundancy, automated failover and economies of scale that few individual companies could ever achieve on their own. But also brought systemic risk. The lesson isn't to abandon the cloud, but to account for failure. Diversify across regions or even providers. Test your backups and assumptions, because reliability isn't a feature of the cloud, it's a discipline.

🌐 When the Cloud Falters, the Ripple Is Global A recent AWS outage served as a stark reminder of how deeply interconnected our digital world has become, impacting communication, finance, and healthcare platforms. What started in one data region rippled across industries worldwide, exposing just how fragile critical cloud infrastructure can be, and why resilience planning matters more than ever. Read this insightful breakdown of what happened, and what it means for businesses relying on hyperscale cloud providers. Read more - courtesy of WIRED: https://bit.ly/3JsWuOp #CloudComputing #AWS #CyberResilience #Infrastructure

When AWS sneezes, the internet catches a cold. The global outage on October 20 showed how deeply the world’s digital systems depend on a few cloud giants. From finance and gaming to public services, over 60 major platforms went dark within hours — all traced to one region in Northern Virginia. For Africa’s growing digital economy, this was more than a tech glitch. It was a wake-up call about concentration risk, data sovereignty, and the urgent need for regional cloud resilience. Read the full story on Data Governance Africa: AWS Outage Exposes Fragility of Global Cloud Infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/d3zWKXzc

10/21/2025  What happened The cloud infrastructure company Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a large-scale outage on October 20, 2025, which disrupted many websites, apps, and services globally. AP News+3 Reuters+3 WTOP News+3 Key details: The root cause: A problem in AWS’s US-EAST-1 region (in northern Virginia), specifically related to Domain Name System (DNS) resolution and an internal monitoring/health system for network load balancers. Business Insider+1 Many services were down or degraded starting early morning U.S. Eastern Time, and AWS reports that full restoration took until later in the day (some residual issues persisted even after main services returned) Reuters+1 The outage highlights how much of the internet depends on a small number of large cloud-service providers

A crucial insight: the cloud isn't foolproof against downtime. Even AWS experiences outages — the key lies in the resilience of your architecture for swift recovery. MSPs play a vital role by crafting hybrid recovery strategies, overseeing redundancy, and safeguarding business continuity during platform disruptions. Check out more on this outage incident: [Link to Reuters article]. #CloudComputing #BusinessResilience