An Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to change
- Written by Jongkil Jay Jeong, Senior Fellow, School of Computing and Information System, The University of Melbourne
Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web ServicesThe world’s largest cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has experienced a major outage that has impacted thousands of organisations, including banks, financial software platforms such as Xero, and social media platforms such as Snapchat.
The outage began at roughly 6pm AEDT on...





