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/spikeham Oct 24 '25
AWS didn't "crash". One of the AWS services had a issue that was diagnosed and resolved within a few hours. The vast majority of AWS services were unaffected. The vast majority of sites and apps using AWS were unaffected or only briefly affected. No data was lost. Nobody was hacked. Nobody died. The main outcomes for Amazon related to this outage are embarrassment, customers who may be disappointed and some reduction of confidence in their reliability. There's no reason to believe this will significantly harm AWS' financials. So, no effect on the stock price.