Amazon cloud outage downed sites for millions of users, exposing risks of overdependence

A few days after Amazon's cloud services company AWS had an outage that for millions of users plunged popular websites and apps into the dark, questions still linger about why we're so reliant on a handful of companies in the first place — and why it might be hard to prevent another outage.

The Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project is a think tank dedicated to addressing the issue of monopoly power in Canada. CAMP produces research and advocates for policy proposals to make Canada’s economy more fair, free, and democratic.

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