On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage in its US-East-1 region, disrupting over 1,000 companies worldwide—including banks, airlines, media platforms, and critical infrastructure services like Coinbase, Reddit, and Disney+. For Portland SMBs relying on cloud-hosted applications, this event was a wake-up call: cloud convenience must be matched with cloud resilience. The outage stemmed from a … Read More