Is Amazon's Cloud Worth the Risk?
Amazon Web Services is frequently used to host a company's platform, meaning there's no need for a company to create its own infrastructure.
Many tech companies including Snap (SNAP) - Get Report and Netflix (NFLX) - Get Report seem to have found common ground in their heavy reliance on AmazonWeb Services (AMZN) - Get Report , but is this reliance leaving some of the biggest names in tech too vulnerable to influences outside of their control? A recent AWS outage caused by human error affected Quora, Giphy and many more.
This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.
