"Zoom,Venmo, WhatsApp and many gaming, banking, social media and consumer sites saw large spikes in reported outages, according to tracker Downdetector. The site said more than 11 million people worldwide reported issues with more than 2,500 companies as of 12:45 pm EST- and this was the biggest AWS outage of the year. Amazon said it addressed the problem, but as of early afternoon on the East Coast, many websites were still experiencing disruptions."
"Between the lines: Computer systems have always had glitches or failed, what's different now is the "centralization risk," says Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill, an AWS consulting firm. Instead of one company's website going down, they all crash at once. As a society, we're still learning how to deal with that, he says. Even if a firm tried to stop outsourcing this work, they'd still come up against reality - the many software services that companies buy would still be using AWS or another cloud provider."
A major outage in Amazon's East Coast region caused widespread service disruptions, with more than 11 million people reporting issues across over 2,500 companies and many websites still affected into the afternoon. Major consumer, gaming, banking, social media, and communication platforms experienced spikes in outages. Three cloud providers—Amazon, Microsoft, and Google—now form the technical backbone for millions of users and thousands of companies. Outsourcing infrastructure to large cloud firms became common because it is cheaper and more efficient than maintaining private data centers. The concentration of services creates a "centralization risk" where multiple companies fail simultaneously. Similar crises expose other hidden dependencies like semiconductor production and just-in-time supply fragility.
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