A recent Amazon Web Services report points to continued global cloud growth across sectors, with security, compliance and cost ranking among the key factors shaping adoption.

AWS outages affect thousands of cloud customers due to DNS issue with AI usage increases making cloud outages more often for clients, Future Tech CEO says.

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

In a statement, Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy (pictured) said AWS is now growing at a pace that hasn’t been seen since 2022, primarily due to demand for AI resources. “We continue to see strong demand in AI and core infrastructure, and we’ve been focused on accelerating capacity – adding more than 3.8 gigawatts in the past 12 months,” he said.

AWS outage from DNS, EC2 and DynamoDB issues explained as cloud infrastructure at data centers and potentially AI technology played a role as Amazon invests in AI.

In making sense of all the hullabaloo, cybersecurity expert David Kennedy just dropped a curt and pertinent take on the AWS outage.