Amazon cloud outage downed sites for millions of users, exposing risks of overdependence

A snipped cable is inserted into a plug with the AWS logo seen in the background.

A few days after Amazon’s cloud services company AWS had an outage that plunged millions of popular websites and apps into the dark, questions still linger about why some companies get so big in the first place — and why it’s so hard to keep them from controlling markets.

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