World's reliance on just a few tech companies highlighted with AWS outage

Published October 20, 2025

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The National News Desk quotes Tevfik Kosar in a story about the outage of Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s sprawling cloud service system, which took down many major websites and apps. “Many of the applications and services we depend on in our daily lives, including email, messaging, social media, banking, online shopping, travel booking, music and video streaming, etc. are all implemented as web services,” explained Kosar. “When any of these cloud service providers face any issue in their systems, this impacts hundreds of millions of people, just like the AWS outage we experienced today.”

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