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AWS outage reveals the internet’s weakest link
A single server failure at Amazon Web Services revealed a deeper structural weakness: The world’s digital economy is too concentrated in too few hands.
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An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centre in the US. AWS controls about 30 per cent of the global cloud computing market.
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Cory Alpert
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When one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) servers went down this week a chunk of the internet
AWS controls about 30 per cent of the global cloud computing market, with another 35 per cent shared between Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The outage hit everyone from small retail operations processing customer transactions to major corporations and technology services providers, whose operations ground to a halt on Oct 20.
