India, Oct. 21 -- The recent AWS outage, affecting banks and social media platforms, reveals the profound risks of centralized cloud computing.

With AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud dominating the market, a single point of failure can lead to widespread disruptions.

To counter these risks, experts recommend a multi-cloud approach and edge computing to decentralize operations and improve data sovereignty compliance.

The world's largest cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has experienced a major outage that has impacted thousands of organisations, including banks, financial software platforms such as Xero, and social media platforms such as Snapchat.

The outage began at roughly 6pm AEDT on OCtober 20, 2025. It was...