An Amazon Web Services exec explains how the company avoided outages during the pandemic, even as its rivals faltered: 'The cloud is all about creating the illusion of infinite capacity' (AMZN, MSFT)

· Amazon Web Services has avoided cloud capacity issues despite surges in usage related to the pandemic.
· David Brown, vice president of AWS Elastic Compute Cloud, told Business Insider that the company managed to avoid issues because it started adapting its supply chain in response to the coronavirus crisis in early...