When A Provider's Lights Go Out, How Can CIOs Keep Operations Going?
InformationWeek, Friday, October 24th, 2025
In the wake of the AWS outage, CIOs must grapple with balancing redundancy and risk. Resilience is not a simple calculation.
For hours on Monday, millions of users and more than 1,000 companies found themselves unable to connect to the internet. Social media platforms Reddit and Snapchat were hit, as were banks Lloyds Bank and Halifax. Even kids were affected, with popular games Fortnite and Roblox knocked offline. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) took to X, describing the event as one that broke "the entire internet" and calling for a breakup of Big Tech.