A major outage at Amazon Web Services disrupted core internet operations worldwide, freezing streaming platforms, fintech apps and enterprise systems for several hours. Elon Musk criticized competitors’ cloud reliance, promoting X Chat as a decentralization-first model. The downtime exposed systemic risk from centralized hosting, prompting urgent reassessments of redundancy architecture. Cloud-reliability specialists emphasized multi-region replication and hybrid resilience strategies. The event renewed policy discussion on cloud concentration risk and resilience planning across mission-critical sectors like banking, logistics and communications.