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Historically, smaller companies or even individuals maintained their own servers, ensuring resilience and control. However, the convenience of outsourcing everything to cloud services has led many to abandon these practices. Companies prefer the ease of managing their infrastructure via AWS, but this approach means that a glitch in one spot can have outsized consequences.
The outage also revealed internal vulnerabilities within Amazon’s architecture. Reports suggest that a technical fault, potentially caused by a misconfiguration or a “push of the wrong button,” led to DNS issues that hampered data retrieval—highlighting how even minor operational errors can have significant fallout when systems are interconnected at scale.