General · 22 October 2025
AWS Outage Exposes Britain's Dangerous Over-Reliance on US Tech Giants
A massive Amazon Web Services outage on Monday brought down over 1,000 websites including Snapchat, banking services, and government sites across Britain. The nine-hour disruption, caused by a DNS system failure in Virginia, highlighted the UK's risky dependence on American cloud providers. Experts warned that concentrated cloud dominance creates catastrophic single points of failure for the internet.
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