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SHIFTHEADS When AWS Falters: Outages, Risk, and Real-World Backups
A massive AWS service failure rippled across the internet, freezing critical tools and exposing how dependent modern life is on a handful of cloud providers. Handy Andy Baryer breaks down what likely failed behind the scenes, why cascading dependencies crippled so many big-name companies, and how redundancy sometimes isn’t as redundant as it sounds. Learn where single points of failure hide, what “multi-region” really protects, and how a cyberattack could amplify the same weak spots. Debate a practical question most ignore until it’s too late: keep cash at home, or…
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