AWS Outage – Lessons in Digital Dependency

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage, it wasn’t just a brief inconvenience—it exposed how dependent our digital world has become on a handful of cloud providers. From e-commerce and banking to communication tools, gaming platforms, and smart homes, the disruption highlighted the fragility of modern infrastructure and the need for true resilience.

In this episode of Security for All, host Kim Hakim explores what really happened during the AWS outage and what it means for organizations, consumers, and cybersecurity professionals.

Kim welcomes Tahjar Roamartinez, MBA, CISSP, ITIL, CEH—former U.S. Army officer and cybersecurity executive with extensive experience in IT governance, risk management, and cloud security. Together, they examine both the technical root causes and t ...