For users, the impacts ranged from the serious such as not being able to access vital banking, government or work services to the not so serious, such as fears of losing long built up streaks on Duolingo. But the outage has also reignited the debate around whether countries, including the UK, are over dependent on a handful of US tech firms. Should we worry that an issue occurring at the heart of Amazon's cloud computing operations in Virginia badly affected UK firms and services such a
