New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- The global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that knocked thousands of websites and apps offline, from the US to India, is a warning for companies that are rapidly scaling for the artificial intelligence (AI) era.

As companies move massive AI workloads to the cloud, reliance on a handful of large cloud providers called hyperscalers-AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure-can make the cloud a single point of failure for critical AI infrastructure. Mint explains why this risk is one software as a service (SaaS) and AI-native companies can't afford to ignore.

On Monday, Amazon's cloud computing arm, AWS, suffered a major global outage that impacted thousands of online platforms from social media and gaming to streaming ...