Rival cloud providers and their partners are already capitalizing on the AWS outage that wreaked havoc across the Internet.
Tuesday’s Amazon Web Services outage wreaked havoc across the Internet for hours, interrupting enterprise services and stalling operations at businesses globally. But in the cloud wars, there’s always joy in someone else’s pain—especially when that someone is the 800-lb gorilla in the industry.
The cascading effects of the AWS S3 storage failure at its data center in Virginia, which started around 12:40 pm ET and was fully resolved some four hours later, left a trail of disgruntled customers, and customers of customers.
It also provided fodder for rivals.
