AWS Outage Knocks Out

In 2025, a series of infrastructure outages significantly impacted businesses, highlighting the importance of reliability in server infrastructure. A prolonged regional outage at Amazon Web Services affected companies that did not directly host workloads in the affected region, but relied on third-party APIs and SaaS tools built on the same infrastructure. Later, a large-scale incident at Cloudflare revealed network weaknesses, even for teams with redundant server setups. These incidents led to a shift in how businesses evaluate infrastructure, prioritizing reliability and architectural control. Companies began to reconsider VPS-based setups, such as those offered by Hetzner, Vultr, and Linode, to regain control and diversify their infrastructure. The main lesson from 2025 was that infrastructure failures are a management issue, and teams that planned for outages explicitly recovered faster. This marked a significant change in the industry, as companies recognized the real cost of infrastructure failures and began to prioritize reliability and diversity in their server infrastructure.