Opinion When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer "tech journalist," you never get asked about cloud infrastructure in return. Bitcoin, mobile phones, AI, yes. Until last week: "What's this AWS thing, then?" You already knew a lot of people were having a very bad day in Bezosville, but if the news had reached an Edinburgh black cab driver, new adjectives were needed.

As the world reluctantly touched grass, the AWS outage of October 20 made the top of the mainstream news. It beautifully illustrated the success of the cloud concept as it took out banking services, gaming platforms, messaging apps, and cat litter trays . Things got better after a few hours, and the nature of the collapse gradually revealed itself. A DNS failure led to a core database dropping off, le

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