Could be something, could be nothing, but today we were unable to submit any financial information to any of the major banks networks.
Small credit unions and local institutions seem to be operating fine, but all of the major banks we work with had their systems offline today.
Amazon's web services crashed apparently
Many of these institutions don't rely on AWS for this type of activity, it's more broad than just AWS
Yep! Amazon makes the majority of their money from AWS. Banks, governments (particularly US military and alphabets) etc.
And it isn't cheap. I was running my project's devsecops pipeline on AWS Govcloud, and for basically 11 servers and a handful of workstations, it was $5k/month. I could have bought all those assets for that price and saved my program so much money, but the Government is run by morons and we HAD to use AWS. The Government is paying the bill, but effing morons.