{"id":8004,"date":"2025-10-27T23:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:09:40","slug":"signal-outage-highlights-growing-global-dependence-on-amazons-cloud-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/signal-outage-highlights-growing-global-dependence-on-amazons-cloud-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal outage highlights growing global dependence on Amazon\u2019s cloud power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Signal<\/a>\u2019s brief outage during last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/aws-outage-ripples-across-global-web-as-amazon-investigates-root-cause\/\">AWS failure<\/a> reignited debate over how deeply the internet depends on a handful of cloud giants. Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned that companies have \u201cno real alternative\u201d to AWS, Google, or Microsoft, as replicating their infrastructure would cost billions. The AWS disruption, caused by a DNS automation error, disrupted millions of services\u2014exposing just how concentrated global cloud control has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signal\u2019s brief outage during last week\u2019s AWS failure reignited debate over how deeply the internet depends on a handful of cloud giants. Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned that companies have \u201cno real alternative\u201d to AWS, Google, or Microsoft, as replicating their infrastructure would cost billions. 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