Should so much of the internet rely on a few cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
On August 17, 2026, a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage disrupted large parts of the internet, taking down or slowing many popular websites and apps.
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When one outage can take down half the web, is that a dangerous single point of failure or just the price of services that actually work? What would it take to change your mind?