Cloud Monopoly, Cyber Vulnerability: Why the AWS Outage Is A Cybersecurity Warning
What began early Monday as a routine internet slowdown quickly escalated into a global digital disruption and a wake-up call for cybersecurity and resilience planning. An outage in Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) US-East-1 region, one of the internet’s most critical infrastructure nodes, temporarily brought down or degraded access to platforms including Snapchat, Fortnite, Canva, Duolingo, and several banking and enterprise systems.