[UglyToad]

I think, though I might be way off base, your comment surfaces something that drives a lot of the, to me, over-the-top reaction to these outages. And that's the way (for AWS/Azure/GCP/Cloudflare) they reveal how the big 3/4 actually have eaten the "old internet" and how obvious downtime makes it.

Like this isn't a space for hobbyists or people just doing things in a decentralized manner anymore. The joke from British TV Sitcom 'The IT Crowd' where (the bigwigs are sold the lie that) the internet is a blinking black box in the company offices is actually true. Like something goes wrong with some obscure autoscaling code and actually, the little black box did break the entire internet.

I'm the kind of person who hates AWS and wants to live in the woods eating squirrels, but I can't really begrudge them downtime.