Commonwealth Bank has dismissed concerns that it will be more vulnerable to a major outage after moving all of its core systems into Amazon Web Services’ cloud, just before the tech giant suffered a crash that crippled its US customers.
AWS says it is still investigating the cause of this week’s outage which struck a swath of online services from Atlassian and Canva to Coinbase, Hinge and Reddit on Monday night. The outage saw some of the world’s most popular websites disappear for 15 hours.
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Amelia McGuire covers technology from the AFR's Sydney newsroom. She was previously the aviation, tourism and gambling reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Connect with Amelia on Twitter. Email Amelia at a.mcguire@afr.com.au
James Eyers writes on banking, finance, payments, regulation and emerging technologies. Based in Sydney, he is a former legal and investment banking editor at the AFR and has been a business journalist for more than 20 years. Email James at jeyers@afr.com.au
