2025: A Year of Cloud Outages and Disruptions

The article discusses the biggest tech outages of 2025, which highlighted the fragility of the internet's backbone. Cloud outages, configuration failures, and cyberattacks affected major companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others. The year's most consequential outage was AWS' October outage, which lasted for nearly 15 hours and affected over 4 million users and 1,000 companies. The article underscores the risk of concentration in cloud computing, where a single failure can spread rapidly across dependent platforms.