AWS Outage Exposes Cloud Dependency, Concentration Risks
The cascading outage across the U.S. East Coast triggered by a domain name system failure in an AWS DynamoDB service demonstrates the risks of deep cloud architectural dependencies.
Building true multi-region cloud resilience is a challenge, said Brent Ellis, principal analyst at Forrester.
Cloud-based services rely on both internally developed code and vendor applications, making it difficult for large enterprises to sort through dependencies within cloud architectures.
Author's summary: AWS outage highlights cloud risks.