A Cloud break we never saw coming
The crash of the Amazon Web Services server last week resulted in a global domino effect with over 2,000 companies under the AWS umbrella losing functionality for a couple of hours. As the biggest Cloud provider with nearly 30% of the market reliant on AWS, the lengthy outage caused collective panic, as it familiarised us with the possibility that the seemingly omniscient ‘Cloud’ can also have a malfunction.
