Today’s lesson…
Do you remember the Amazon Internet crash of 2025?
Some of you didn’t even realize it happened on October 20, 2025. If that’s the case, you’re in a good spot.
For others, entire billion dollar businesses went down for a brief time.
The reason I’m mentioning this here is because it’s an area you need to be prepared for.
I also run a membership called Streams of Income where I help moms and dads create lives where they spend more time with their kids without worrying so much about money.
It’s kind of an offshoot of the same kind of preparedness I talk about here, but more career and financial. I help my members in there prepare for things like Internet outage, government shutdowns, and such by building streams of income in various places.
Even if you weren’t affected by the Amazon outage, you should take note of it as a wake up call to get your own financial house in order.
Here’s a great email by my friend Oliver El-Gorr about a more insidious aspect of the outage- just how much the world’s digital economy relies on Amazon.
If you like what Oliver’s throwing down, you should check out his interview on my podcast. It’s HERE.
Here’s Oliver’s post-
Monday morning was a reminder of just how much of the internet depends on Amazon.
AWS went down for several hours… and suddenly half the digital world stopped working.
Coinbase couldn’t process trades…
Robinhood locked users out of their accounts…
Slack messages wouldn’t send.
Even some garage door openers wouldn’t work.
The outage affected 142 different AWS services across the East Coast… which in turned affected the entire internet.
So this wasn’t just an Amazon problem. It was an everything problem.
Because Amazon Web Services has quietly become the backbone of the modern internet.
They control about a third of the global cloud computing market… powering everything from Netflix streaming to government databases.
When AWS goes down, a significant portion of the digital economy goes down with it.
Think about what that means from an investment perspective.
Amazon isn’t just an e-commerce company that sells books and household goods. They’re critical infrastructure for the digital age.
Every company that depends on AWS for their operations is essentially paying Amazon rent to exist online.
And that rent keeps going up as businesses become more digital and data-intensive.
The Monday outage actually demonstrates the strength of Amazon’s competitive position… not its weakness.
Yes it’s concerning that so much of the internet depends on a single provider… but it also shows how essential AWS has become to modern business operations.
Companies can’t just switch cloud providers overnight.
Their entire technology stack is built on AWS services, APIs and infrastructure.
Moving to Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud would require months of engineering work and massive costs.
This creates incredible customer stickiness and pricing power for Amazon.
Even when AWS has outages, customers don’t leave. They just wait for service to be restored and continue paying their monthly bills.
The outage also highlighted how AWS has become a toll booth for the entire internet economy.
Every digital transaction, every streaming video, every mobile app interaction generates revenue for Amazon through their cloud services.
As the economy becomes more digital, AWS becomes more valuable.
The Monday disruption affected millions of people and thousands of businesses, but it probably increased Amazon’s long-term competitive moat.
It reminded everyone just how dependent they are on AWS and how difficult it would be to replace.
Because when your customers literally can’t operate without your services, you have incredible pricing power and competitive protection.
And that’s the ultimate economic moat
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