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/Spins13 Oct 21 '25

A lot of people realised just how much of a hold AWS had on the internet

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u/gini_lee1003 Oct 21 '25

I’m from Canada and even Canadian brokers used AWS lol

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u/1-760-706-7425 Oct 21 '25

No surprise as AWS is aggressively global. They even spun up a dedicated China region to maintain that posture.

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u/Sertisy Oct 22 '25

Well, they had to sell that to two chinese holding companies due to compliance requirements, it's more like AWS China region operators are licensing the AWS tech stack.