Commentary: An Amazon outage has rattled the internet – why the ‘cloud’ needs to change

AWS outage exposes risks that come with cloud monopoly

University of Melbourne’s Dr Jongkil Jay Jeong discusses AWS’ recent cloud outage that affected organisations around the world.

Commentary: An Amazon outage has rattled the internet – why the ‘cloud’ needs to change

There are ways to mitigate some of the risks of relying so much on cloud computing, says this University of Melbourne researcher.

AWS outage could represent a moderate cyber re/insurance event: CyberCube

In a new Security Incident Report (SIR) created following the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, CyberCube, a provider of cyber risk analytics for the re/insurance industry, highlights the systemic risk from concentrated cloud-provider dependencies, revealing the exposure of digital ecosystems to a single cloud region/critical service failure. CyberCube’s SIR report explained, “This AWS outage underscores systemic cloud services provider concentr…