Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

An AWS service disruption highlights the financial sector's dependency on cloud providers and the critical importance of having resilience plans in place

Millions of apps, websites and services rely on AWS, one of the world's largest cloud computing platforms. Here's what we know about the outage.

The outage underscored a central trade-off of cloud computing: while it lets businesses deploy global services without maintaining vast infrastructure, it concentrates risk. A problem in a single region—like Northern Virginia—can cause widespread, simultaneous outages for unrelated companies worldwide.

Afaaq” programme, announced last week at Gitex Global 2025 in Dubai, plans to train 30,000 people in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies through e& Academy, the company’s flagship training platform.