Professional AWS can transform your business operations. Monday, October 21st wasn’t a great day for the internet.
At 3 AM, Amazon Web Services went down. Hard.
Major airlines couldn’t process reservations. Banking and financial apps went dark. Payment processors stopped working. Logistics tracking systems froze. Even Amazon’s own Ring security systems and Alexa devices went silent.
The culprit? A DNS issue in AWS’s US-East-1 region (Northern Virginia). That’s tech-speak for “the system that tells the internet where things live broke, and nobody could find anything.”
Some services came back after a few hours. Others didn’t fully recover until 6 PM. If your business runs entirely on AWS, you spent the day watching loading screens and explaining to customers why nothing worked.
Here’s the Problem
AWS powers about 30% of the cloud infrastructure market. That’s a massive chunk of the internet living in one place. When it goes down, the ripple effect is global.
This isn’t new either. AWS had similar outages in 2021 and 2023. Microsoft and Google have had their own meltdowns too. The pattern is clear: putting all your eggs in one cloud basket is risky business.
The Solution Nobody Wants to Hear
Multi-cloud strategy. Yeah, we know. It sounds complicated and expensive.
But here’s what’s more expensive: losing an entire day of operations because your single provider had a bad morning.
What multi-cloud actually means: Spread your critical systems across multiple providers. If AWS goes down, your backup runs on Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Your business keeps running while everyone else posts “We’ll be back soon” messages.
What you should do right now:
- Audit what you’re running on a single cloud provider
- Identify your mission-critical systems
- Build redundancy for anything that can’t afford downtime
- Test your backup plans (not just create them and hope)
The Bottom Line
Yesterday’s outage wasn’t caused by hackers or malicious attacks. It was a technical failure at one of the world’s most sophisticated cloud providers.
And it still brought down massive chunks of the internet for hours.
The question isn’t if your provider will have another outage. It’s when, and are you ready?
Don’t let the next cloud outage take your business offline.
Schedule a free consultation with us and let’s build a multi-cloud strategy that protects your business.
Published: Oct 21, 2025
