CNN 5 Things AWS outage recovery, Trump threatens Hamas, kiwis as medicine & more
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Oct 20, 2025 A massive outage at Amazon Web Services has disrupted services worldwide, prompting investigation into its causes. As the government shutdown continues, federal workers face ongoing hardships. President Trump threatens to eradicate Hamas if ceasefire conditions aren't met. The audacious Louvre heist remains unsolved, with thieves still at large. Meanwhile, new research suggests that kiwis, along with rye bread and water, can effectively relieve chronic constipation.
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Centralized Cloud Creates Single-Point Risk
- AWS powers millions of businesses by letting them rent scalable server capacity instead of running their own servers.
- That centralization makes outages massively disruptive across industries when failures occur.
Reduce Single-Provider Dependency
- Investigate and limit dependencies on single cloud services to reduce outage risk.
- Consider architectures that allow rapid failover or multi-cloud deployment to maintain availability.
Shutdown Harms Federal Workers' Livelihoods
- The US government shutdown has left many federal workers furloughed or unpaid for weeks.
- That delay forces families to rely on food banks and skip medications while senators debate funding bills.