On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a massive outage in its largest and most critical region, US-EAST-1. Though not the only incident that has happened, it did impact many businesses and was a textbook example of how overreliance on a single cloud provider can cause a business to halt in case of emergency.
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The AWS domino effect: Overreliance on AWS means when it sneezes, we all fall down
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