Technology · 21 October 2025
Why One Cloud Outage Can Take the Internet Down With It
Think of the cloud as the Internet’s power grid — vast data centres run by Amazon, Microsoft, or Google. Most apps rent their “digital electricity” from these shared hubs instead of running their own servers. When one hub — say, AWS’s US-East-1 region — stumbles, every app relying on it goes dark together. The cause can be mundane: a failed update, fibre break, or overload. The insight? The Internet isn’t truly global — it’s concentrated in a few powerful clouds.
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