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Interestingly, the financial markets seem to favor these tech giants despite their vulnerabilities. During the AWS outage, Amazon’s stock responded positively, illustrating the market’s perception of these companies as “too big to fail.” This disparity between corporate resilience and the fragility of the underlying infrastructure reveals systemic issues in how modern economies are structured.
Meanwhile, small businesses or local institutions bear the brunt of failures that often go unnoticed by national and global markets. They lack the resources to weather outages or implement redundancy, making them especially vulnerable.