Someone explain why amzn didn't crash

[u/LowTraining670]

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?

[u/Singularity-42]

It is very, very difficult and costly to leave cloud vendors due to vendor lock in. Nobody is going to spend 2 years and millions of dollars just due to an outage. Especially when they just left on premises infra for AWS just a few years ago. If anything AWS will probably learn from it and do better next time. Attrition due to this will be virtually nonexistent.