Eight million users flag problems following AWS outage

AWS Outage Overview - AWS experienced a major outage lasting over 10 hours, with disruptions rising again in its Northern Virginia cloud region [2] - More than 8 million users flagged problems, including AI platform Perplexity [2] - The outage began around 3:00 a m with network failures and DNS issues tied to its core database system [3] - Amazon is rolling out fixes, and some cloud services are recovering, but outage reports are surging [4] - Cyber experts say this is not a hack, but highlights the fragility of the internet due to reliance on a few companies' infrastructure [4] Market Impact and Customer Strategy - AWS controls 37% of the global cloud market and brought in $107 billion last year [4] - A single regional failure can knock critical services offline worldwide [5] - Some customers are adopting a multicloud strategy to hedge against outages, like OpenAI moving to Google Cloud and working with Oracle [6][7] - The industry is watching for increased capex commitments from Google and Amazon to serve generative AI customers [7] - Amazon stock trading 1% higher despite the outage [5]