Amazon's AWS recovering
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How Amazon’s most important cloud region became critical to daily online life, and why even a brief disruption can have global effects.
"Today's massive AWS outage is a visceral reminder of the risks of over-reliance on two dominant cloud providers, an outage most of us will have felt in some way," said Nicky Stewart, Senior Advisor at the Open Cloud Coalition. Cloud services in the UK are largely dominated by AWS and Microsoft's Azure, with Google Cloud coming a distant third.