Chaos in the Cloud: What Happens When Amazon Web Services Crashes?

Daniel B. Martin
5 min readDec 9, 2021
Masked man points at modern cloud particles

Since the dawn of time humans have relied on the clouds, you know, for rain… But now there is a new and increasing form of human reliance upon ‘the cloud’ — and many of us might not even notice how deep it goes into our daily lives.

Long Ago, in a Galaxy not Far Away

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Daniel B. Martin

Author and Philosopher. Philosophical musings and bits on the absurdities of modern life. @prefuturedan Books: Life is Weird, Son of a Madman & Alethea’s Dreams