A large-scale global outage occurred on Amazon Web Services (AWS), disrupting various platforms and digital tools.
The outage highlights the risks of relying on centralized cloud infrastructures, with even competing platforms like Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure experiencing secondary service degradation.
The event highlights the need for more resilient and decentralized architectures to prevent future large-scale service disruptions.
AWS reported that most operations have returned to normal.
Author's summary: AWS outage affects multiple services.