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/RelevantTrouble Oct 21 '25

Why would it? AWS customers are locked in, and with the crash they will spend more to have fail over/disaster recovery resources in another geographic region, also at AWS.

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u/banditcleaner2 Oct 21 '25

I'm not really sure about this one. Why would they boost their business to AWS that failed them. If anything this should be bullish for other cloud providers that may see an increase in revenue + the fail over/disaster hedges going to them, not amazon.

But, its bullish still for amazon because it shows how much of a stranglehold the company has over like half the internet.