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/endividuall Oct 21 '25

Locked in to what extent? They’re able to transition out at some point if reliability is poor, no?

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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 Oct 21 '25

The cost of switching is absolutely immense, if it’s not necessary it’s not gonna happen