Amazon Cloud Outage: Leading Provider of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services Faces Global Outage

Amazon Cloud Outage: Leading Provider of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services Faces Global Outage

A leading provider of cloud infrastructure and platform services, and a dominant force covering 41 percent of the market, now faces a global outage, giving a reality check on how much companies rely on the corporate behemoth’s computing infrastructure.

Due to technical glitches stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services, businesses ranging from Snapchat to McDonald’s rent the infrastructure to operate their operations faces the heavy disruptions.

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As they rely heavily on Amazon to store data, develop and test software, or perform other types of operations, many establishments prefer Amazon cloud services.

With California, Ohio, Virginia, and Oregon being the four key data centers and computing hubs in the United States, the region in Northern Virginia witnessed a major glitch in the country.

This major cloud provider leased more than 7.4 gigawatts of U.S. data center capacity in the third quarter alone, states the TD Cowen report.