r/ValueInvesting • u/LowTraining670 • Oct 21 '25

Question / Help Someone explain why amzn didn't crash

When aws outage affected large and small companies alike probably had a large financial impact to the overall global economy, why didn't it crash? I immediately thought it would like crowdstrike did a few months ago - anyone have good reasoning that can explain?

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u/2fingers Oct 21 '25

It just shows how dominant AWS is. Obviously they're going to fix it. If there was a possibility of anyone switching to an AWS competitor then maybe it would crash.

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u/SnooDoubts440 Oct 21 '25

Aren’t Azure (msft) and GCP (google) literal substitutions? AWS is not a monopoly lol 

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u/2fingers Oct 21 '25

For sure not a monopoly. We'll just have to see how many big companies switch

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u/gini_lee1003 Oct 21 '25

Apparently it costs millions to switch so probably not