Banking Director on AWS Outage and a Wake-Up Call for the Global Digital Economy
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A banking director weighs in on the recent AWS outage, highlighting its impact on the global digital economy and the need for more robust infrastructure; the discussion is limited but reflects on the significance of the event.
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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...