An Amazon Web Services outage has been causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.
On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others.
Move to the cloud they said. More resilient services they said.
Not only that, but you’re at their mercy for the cost. My servers don’t suddenly become more expensive to run because Amazon or Microsoft want more money.