
Opinion by: Angie Darrow, chief marketing officer and chief ecosystem communications officer at Web3 Foundation
When a temporary data cloud outage can disrupt the global financial system — as the AWS Tokyo outage demonstrated in April — something’s gone wrong with the infrastructure that underpins today’s data economy.
In the early hours of April 12, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a “connectivity issue” at its Tokyo data center. The outage lasted just 36 minutes, but the ripple effects were immediate. When AWS falters, so does the…

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