A recent global outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), as it is also known, left tens of thousands of apps, platforms, and banks around the world offline for several hours.
The unexpected incident exposed the enormous concentration and dependence within the cloud market, making it clear that just three major companies, Amazon (AWS), Microsoft, and Google, control more than 60% of the global cloud infrastructure business.
The failure originated in the US-East-1 region of the United States, specifically in its database systems, which caused numerous services to lose access to their data or fail to establish a connection.
“The connectivity in the cloud is extremely complex… it’s been designed so that we can only depend on them,” an expert commented after the incident yesterday.
Does this mean the Internet is highly vulnerable?
Yes. The answer is clear: when a large portion of digital infrastructure depends on just a few companies, even a single technical failure can trigger a chain reaction. This event highlights the urgent need to diversify providers, strengthen resilience, and reduce global dependence on a single cloud actor.