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Not just the government, probably most of the sites you visit in one way or another link to Amazon. Look at how many sites go down when there's an AWS outage.

What does this mean for personal privacy when most of the services you use are backed by one platform?

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You make it sound like there is one shared database for everything. AWS does a great job of internal firewalling and separation.

"AWS outage" can mean various things, but there are and have been AZ-wide outages, and given the difficulties of replication and redundancy, there are services which are located (or reliant on -- even if unintentionally) a single AZ.

So yes, much online infrastructure _does_ have AWS dependencies. Sometimes (by way of secondary services) in ways that the operators of the service itself may not be directly aware.

This line of thought works with CDNs too.

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