AWS Cloud Outage Reveals Vendor Concentration Risk¶
Bednarz, A. (2025). AWS Cloud Outage Reveals Vendor Concentration Risk. TechTarget.
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- Exposure Creep
- In infrastructure, undersea cables, GPS, and single-provider cloud regions accumulate dependent services over quiet years until an outage exposes a stake unrelated to the original service's stated reliability.
This sourceDocuments how dependent services accumulate on shared critical cloud infrastructure (e.g., the AWS US-East-1 region) so that one outage cascades to far more than any single provider's stated reliability — firms that believed they were diversified discover a common underlying dependency.
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The article documents dependent services concentrated on one AWS region failing together, but says nothing about undersea cables, GPS or slow accumulation over quiet years.
“The blast radius was even larger as organizations without direct AWS contracts experienced downtime because their SaaS vendors, payment processors and authentication services depended on the US-EAST-1 infrastructure.”
- In infrastructure, undersea cables, GPS, and single-provider cloud regions accumulate dependent services over quiet years until an outage exposes a stake unrelated to the original service's stated reliability.
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