It just means the internet is built on a very flimsy stack of technologies and any of them failing causes huge downstream issues. We saw that with AWS, and now with Cloudflare.
It’s only concerning if there are no alternatives, but as it stands there are other companies that all of these websites could have done a failover to when both AWS or Cloudflare went down. But they decided that their websites having a single point of failure was worth the risk over paying for having a proper backup system ready to go.
So many people seem to have just forgotten the crowd strike outage, which halted air traffic for a day and stopped a not-insignificant amount of public infrastructure
It just means the internet is built on a very flimsy stack of technologies and any of them failing causes huge downstream issues. We saw that with AWS, and now with Cloudflare.
It’s only concerning if there are no alternatives, but as it stands there are other companies that all of these websites could have done a failover to when both AWS or Cloudflare went down. But they decided that their websites having a single point of failure was worth the risk over paying for having a proper backup system ready to go.
I now imagine all the websites to fail over to the same backup services, effectively ddosing them and creating a chain reaction :D
Yeah! We call those “Cascading Failures”
They’re a nightmare! 😄
DNS doesn’t fail over, unfortunately.
And azure also went down too
So many people seem to have just forgotten the crowd strike outage, which halted air traffic for a day and stopped a not-insignificant amount of public infrastructure