Mint Explainer | How AWS‑style cloud outages could hamper the AI march

As companies move massive AI workloads to the cloud, reliance on a handful of large cloud providers called hyperscalers—AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure—can make the cloud a single point of failure for critical AI infrastructure. Mint explains why this risk is one software as a service (SaaS) and AI-native companies can’t afford to ignore.

What is the AWS outage all about?

On Monday, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, AWS, suffered a major global outage that impacted thousands of online platforms from…