The Edge: After the AWS outage, are you concerned about how reliant the internet is on a single company?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Amazon’s AWS is back online after an outage that impacted companies and organizations globally. According to Amazon, the outage originated at the company’s Virginia data center, and had to do with a domain name system issue and amazon’s DynamoDB database service. The whole thing led to further complications that kept websites offline for a good chunk of the workday. That outage has a lot of people talking about how fragile our systems are.

Did you realize how reliant the internet is on a single company?