Banking director on AWS outage and a wake-up call for the global digital economy(londonlovesbusiness.com)

1 pointsby terespuwashقبل 9 أشهر1 comments

Banking director on AWS outage and a wake-up call for the global digital economy

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/banking-director-on-aws-outage-and-a-wake-up-call-for-the-global-digital-economy/

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bell-cotقبل 9 أشهر

> Few institutions anticipated that a third party with AWS’s reputation could experience a failure of such magnitude. As a result, many had not prepared or tested for an outage of this scale, or for the specific recovery steps required to restore critical services quickly.

Suggested correction: "All competent institutions knew perfectly well that AWS had a history of failing at scale, but they found it convenient to pretend otherwise".

An easy starting point, if anyone on HN is somehow unaware of the history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Amazon_Web_Services_outag...