During October and November 2025, several major cloud outages occurred at both AWS and Microsoft Azure. These incidents affected everything from social media and e-commerce to healthcare and enterprise applications – demonstrating how quickly a technical failure at a major provider can create widespread impact.
In many cases, the disruptions were not caused by attacks but by internal issues: misconfigurations, lack of redundancy, or hardware failures in central data centers. Even though these environments are built for high availability, many users temporarily experienced difficulties logging in, working, or accessing their systems.
Many analysts argue that this autumn’s incidents point to broader structural challenges. When large parts of the digital infrastructure depend on just a few global cloud providers, a single incident can affect not only individual companies but entire sectors at once. The concentration has made the world more efficient – but also more vulnerable to disruptions.
Risks, Dependencies, and Compliance
The disruptions reveal not only technical vulnerabilities but also raise questions around dependency and compliance:
- Technical vulnerability: if one region is affected, many services can be disrupted simultaneously.
- Legal risk: U.S. laws such as the CLOUD Act can, depending on the situation, result in the disclosure of data even from servers located within the EU.
- Operational risk: a strong dependency on a single provider can extend recovery times during incidents.
Why Swedish Hosting Can Be Part of the Answer
One way to reduce risks is to strengthen data sovereignty and local control. VisionFlow offers a platform where all data is stored in Sweden, under Swedish and European legislation. This means:
- Full control over data processing and access.
- Redundant data centers within Sweden for high availability.
- Support for GDPR, NIS2, and DORA.
- Complete traceability for audits, security, and incident management.
By combining Swedish hosting, transparency, and a secure development process, VisionFlow provides a solution built on robustness, traceability, and compliance.
Next Steps
This autumn’s outages highlight how a centralized cloud landscape can become fragile. To strengthen resilience, organizations must consider availability, data sovereignty, and regulatory compliance — not just price and performance. With VisionFlow’s Swedish-hosted platform, you gain a stable and traceable solution with clear control over operations, security, and data.