Global Internet Disruption Reveals Critical Dependence on Single AWS Data Center Region
A major Amazon Web Services outage has highlighted the internet’s critical dependency on a single data center region in Northern Virginia. The disruption affected countless services worldwide, revealing systemic vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure concentration.
Cloud Infrastructure Concentration Creates Global Vulnerability
A widespread internet disruption on Monday originating from Amazon Web Services has exposed what analysts suggest is a critical vulnerability in the global digital ecosystem: the overwhelming concentration of cloud computing infrastructure in a single Northern Virginia data center region.