(InvestigateTV) — A recent widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage disrupted popular apps and sites – including Snapchat, Reddit, and some banking and streaming services – before service steadied.
“You really realize early on how integrated cloud communications is to our everyday lives,” said Stephen Hilt, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro.
“Services that you may actually rely on are actually impacted by these outages.”
The cloud, of which AWS is an important part, is a mystery to many, but at a basic level, it is shared storage for files and programs that can be accessed by users with an internet connection.
“The cloud is a homogeneous infrastructure that resides somewhere else. So, we used to have data centers in-house with AWS or other providers out there,” Hilt explained.
“They’re hosting that service, that server, those applications are somewhere else.”
He said over time, many of the apps and services we use have migrated to cloud infrastructure…
