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Major Vulnerability Exposed in Amazon’s Global Internet Outage
Amazon controls over 41% of the cloud market, and its Northern Virginia hub handles massive AI workloads, exposing risks of concentrated infrastructure, analysts said.
- On Monday, Amazon Web Services experienced errors that triggered a massive internet outage, exposing vulnerabilities in a concentrated system and widespread reliance on AWS by companies that use cloud services.
- Rising AI workloads have spiked demand for computing power and data centers, with Gartner analyst Lydia Leong noting US‑East‑1 is increasingly a hub for AI workloads.
- AWS maintains just four U.S. hubs, including the Virginia US‑East‑1 cluster, which is the biggest and oldest hub with well over 100 warehouses affecting user access speed.
- Amazon's market dominance means over 41% market share, according to Gartner, and businesses like Snapchat and McDonald’s renting its infrastructure magnify outage impacts.
- Although the cloud seems abstract, most general users don't know where the cloud is, even though the cloud as a physical infrastructure affects application user experience.
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