Ripple effects of AWS outage

UC professor explains the impact of service disruption across industries

The impact of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage was felt on web platforms across the globe. Spectrum News reported that insurance companies, government agencies and airlines were just some of the many businesses impacted. 

Spectrum News turned to Lindner College of Business professor Sachin Modi for insights on the outage’s lingering effects. Modi, head of the department of operations, business analytics and information systems (OBAIS), told Spectrum that when a provider as large as AWS experiences an outage, it doesn’t just stop one service; it can reach thousands of systems that rely on it.

“The cloud, being so easily accessible and available to everyone, comes with this bigger risk,” he said. “In today's business, if anything breaks down on the cloud, it is going to cascade and affect almost everything.”

See the full Spectrum News report.

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