AWS outage undermines Amazon's reliability

5 days ago

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"The day Amazon broke the internet for millions of Americans. A glitch with an obscure Amazon database disrupted core internet services causing Alexa devices and financial trades to malfunction. The faulty update sent the well-oiled machine careening towards a crash, resulting in prolonged outages across critical services, including my own website Qualrum. This massive failure not only inflicted immediate reputational damage on AWS but is also likely to push companies towards a multicloud strategy, further hurting Amazon's market dominance."

The speaker highlights an AWS outage that caused widespread disruptions and reputational damage for Amazon (AMZN), suggesting that this failure may lead customers to adopt multicloud strategies, negatively impacting Amazon in the long run.

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