The Price Is Fright

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Good morning 🌥️ The [sort of] annual corporate reminder to touch grass occurred this past week when a crash in Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure and its main cash cow—Amazon Web Services (AWS)—caused several major websites and apps (Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Signal, Reddit, the McDonald’s app, even the British government website, etc.) to go offline.

To clarify, the likes of AWS are rent-seekers that host your websites and apps so that you don’t have giant machines the size of your fridge whirring in the back of your office/home.

AWS is widely regarded as the industry gold standard, so when outages happen, the companies affected are just as intriguing as the companies unaffected.

Are you in the big leagues if your sites didn’t go offline?

—Gloria Mbabazi, Shem Opolot

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