Amazon Cloud Outage Exposes Dangerous Concentration in America’s Digital Backbone

On Monday, millions of internet users across the nation were blindsided by a crippling outage traced back to Amazon Web Services (AWS), underscoring a vulnerability that the America First movement has long warned about: overdependence on concentrated foreign-influenced corporate infrastructures that jeopardize our national sovereignty and economic resilience.Amazon controls over 41% of the global cloud infrastructure market, with its largest hub located in Northern Virginia—the US-East-1 region. This cluster alone handles orders of magnitude more data than other regions combined. While designed for redundancy, the reality is starkly different. The vast majority of businesses, from social media platforms to major...