Why Orbit20 Could Have Prevented Massive Amazon Web Services outages that hit companies across internet

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud-computing platform that’s the digital backbone to numerous different businesses, has suffered a major outage.

The problems on Wednesday affected numerous firms including the streaming platform Roku, creative software manufacturer Adobe, and high-profile news outlets including the Wall Street Journal owned by Amazon billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Amazon-affiliated businesses were not spared either. Users of Ring, the Amazon-owned smart home security camera company, couldn’t log in and watch video at points, while the outage also hit The Washington Post, which Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns privately.

For all the uptime guarantees, it only takes one flip of the wrong switch and the entire Internet can come to a screeching halt. This is Orbit20's ultimate mission to not only be a data backup, but an independent Internet failsafe that reduces the fracturing of the Internet as we are more and more at the mercy of a few providers.

The Orbit20 space-based product suite including powerful solutions like, content delivery, virtual machines, database and storage backups provide a failsafe that can be relied on when earth based data centers fail. Whether that is due to human error, power outages or natural disasters.

When a service such as Amazon AWS, based on technology from 2006, is essential to the company—and the economy at large, it is imperative that we create additional systems that surround this old and frail infrastructure.

Rather than investing in more costly local systems, companies can take advantage of Orbit20's satellite constellation to keep their services running. With setup taking less than 5 minutes, its a cost-effective and ultra-secure solution.