Outages like this can take down a lot of services we rely on, cloud boss sayspublished at 14:54 BST
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A cloud sharing company boss says today is a “bad
day” for Amazon.
Matthew Prince’s business Cloudflare uses cloud-based
software to help websites and apps connect and remain secure.
Speaking to Radical with Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4, Prince
says that although there are “amazing things” about relying on cloud
sharing technology, “if you have an outage like this it can take down a
lot of services we rely on.
“Some of the companies were able to stay online, but that
comes with complexity and cost and not everyone makes those decisions,” he
adds.
Ultimately though, Prince says, today’s Amazon outage
“is not a big deal”.
Instead, the tech boss says he’s worried about
“governments intentionally taking the internet offline”.
“If that gets normalised that’s a bigger risk to the
internet,” he explains.