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When the Cloud Falters: The AWS Outage as a Cautionary Tale

Author: Donald Wright, Marketing Manager, Kanguru

On 20 October 2025, a major outage at AWS’ US-East-1 region caused widespread service disruptions across gaming, smart-home, banking and other consumer applications; a stark reminder that cloud infrastructure, while resilient, is not infallible.

The outage highlights the value of maintaining offline or hybrid storage solutions: keeping critical data and systems on local or on-premises encrypted devices gives organisations more control, resilience and protection against cloud-provider failures and cascading dependency risks.

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