"Our conversation began with a pair of incidents that received less attention than they deserved. Twice in the last month, large sections of the internet were knocked offline. Lee was the first to flag the Cloudflare failure. He described sitting down to write when the 24/7 Wall St site wouldn't load, followed quickly by outages at X and other platforms. At its peak, roughly 20 percent of the internet was inaccessible."
"The explanation raised more questions than answers. I told Lee that AWS concerns me even more. Amazon Web Services remains the backbone of the modern corporate internet, hosting everything from government systems to major enterprises. When AWS stumbles, the hole it creates in the economy is enormous. The prospect that a failure on its network could cascade across sectors is no longer hypothetical."
Large-scale internet outages recently knocked offline roughly 20 percent of the internet after a Cloudflare failure, with services like X and 24/7 Wall St affected. Cloudflare cited unanticipated data surges, yet the disruption began just after 3 a.m., when traffic is typically lowest, leaving questions. Hyperscale cloud providers such as AWS and Microsoft Azure underpin government and enterprise systems, and failures there could cascade across sectors. Lawmakers have sought testimony from AI companies about potential infrastructure disruptions. The U.S. electricity grid is fragile due to weather, aging transmission, and inadequate redundancy, as the Texas ERCOT freeze demonstrated.
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