According to the source, an AWS outage exposed the crypto market’s reliance on a single cloud provider, elevating operational risk across exchange APIs, RPC node endpoints, and oracle updates that can widen spreads and increase liquidation risk during incidents. According to the source, traders should monitor cloud and venue status pages in real time, reduce leverage, diversify RPC endpoints, and route orders to venues with multi-cloud or on-prem redundancy to mitigate execution slippage and latency spikes.