> Few institutions anticipated that a third party with AWS’s reputation could experience a failure of such magnitude. As a result, many had not prepared or tested for an outage of this scale, or for the specific recovery steps required to restore critical services quickly.

Suggested correction: "All competent institutions knew perfectly well that AWS had a history of failing at scale, but they found it convenient to pretend otherwise".

An easy starting point, if anyone on HN is somehow unaware of the history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Amazon_Web_Services_outag...