The Centralization Crisis Threatens Data Privacy

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…