India, Oct. 23 -- The recent Amazon outage started yet another debate on reliability, regulation, compliance, and efficiency. The supporters of Amazon Web Services (AWS), which accounts for 70 per cent of the cloud computing market along with Google and Microsoft, and clocked a revenue of $125 billion last year, contend that the outage was minimal, unintentional, and a simple backend mistake. The critics feel that while telecom services are prone to higher standards in case of disruptions, a giant like Amazon escapes the regulatory oversight, and is given a pass. A recent analysis by Strand Consult analyses the pros and cons of whether AWS needs to financially support more accessible, and resilient networks. Amazon says that if it allows ...