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🌩️ Amazon Cloud Down:| What It Teaches Us About Cloud Resilience

🌩️ Amazon Cloud Down: What It Teaches Us About Cloud Resilience

Posted by A.A.B.S. (All About Business Solutions)

The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is a reminder that even the world’s largest cloud platforms can experience downtime. From streaming apps and enterprise dashboards to small business apps, the ripple effects were global and immediate.

The disruption began around 3:11 a.m. ET in the US-East-1 region and quickly cascaded through multiple services, causing elevated error rates, latencies, and connectivity issues. READ THE CYBER SECURITY BLOG POST.

🛑 Who was impacted?

Here are some of the major networks, apps and businesses hit by the outage:

  • Social Media & Messaging: Snapchat, Signal, Discord (via downstream services) Facebook
  • Gaming Platforms: Fortnite, Roblox, Pokémon Go, Wordle
  • Major Retail & Apps: McDonald's App, Venmo, Coinbase, Duolingo, Amazon.com (including Alexa, Prime Video, Ring) Facebook
  • Banks & Telecoms (UK): Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank, HM Revenue & Customs website, Vodafone & BT Group services Cyber Security E-Book for Small Business Owners

In the UK alone, there were over 1 million outage reports in just one region, and globally more than 2 000 companies reported service disruptions. Cyber Security E-Book for Small Business Owners

While the outage wasn’t caused by a malicious attack, it stemmed from a problem in AWS’s internal monitoring / load-balancer subsystem—highlighting how even internal configuration issues at a cloud giant can ripple out broadly. Learn How To protect your Business

How smart businesses prepare

  • Multi-cloud strategy: Avoid single-vendor dependency. Distribute critical workloads across AWS, Azure, and/or private cloud to keep services available.
  • Monitoring & automation: Use continuous health checks, autoscaling, and automated failover to detect issues and reroute traffic before users notice.
  • Data protection: Maintain independent, frequent backups with tested recovery points so you can restore quickly if a provider experiences downtime.
  • Incident response plan: Document roles, runbooks, and communication steps—and test them. Tabletop exercises turn chaos into muscle memory.

Outages happen. Disruption doesn’t have to. If you want a quick, practical check on your current posture, we can help you assess weak points and build a prioritized roadmap to keep your business running—no matter which cloud is down. Best Seller Cyber Security E-Book all Small Business Owners should Have

About A.A.B.S.

A.A.B.S. (All About Business Solutions) helps organizations design resilient cloud architectures, implement monitoring and automation, and protect data with practical recovery plans. Need help right now? Contact our team.

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