by Anura Guruge
on December 27, 2021
Amazon & Jeff Bezos are BOTH too big — way, way too BIG — to fail.
People know that & that is just one of the reasons that there are quite a few — governments, organizations, competitors & even rich individuals — that would LOVE to see Amazon (& Jeff) experience at least a FEW set backs. Speed bumps in the inevitable & inexorable march towards continued growth & success.
There is so much engineering & levels of redundancy within AWS to prevent outages.
Thus, I am willing to countenance one rare outage once in a blue moon. But, three within a month? That sounds fishy. Smacks of possible sabotage — possibly from within (done for a price or vendetta).
AMZN shares have been faltering of late (& I know, since I own a fair amount). AMZN’s recent performance isn’t all due to the AWS outages — though the outages have not helped. Is this industrial sabotage?
Amazon’s AWS competitors would love nothing better than to cast doubt & aspersions as to the reliability & resilience of AWS. This is close to a TRILLION DOLLAR market. There are BILLIONS at stake. So, one could easily spend millions to facilitate a sabotage.
Think about it.
There is no doubt that folks inside Amazon (& AWS) have already thought about this — & undertaken strenuous investigations. There is something that just feels fishy.
