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This incident exposes fundamental vulnerabilities inherent in the current structure of digital infrastructure. Many companies have offloaded their web and cloud services to providers like AWS because of cost efficiency and scalability. However, this centralization creates a single point of failure.
Experts express concern that the consolidation of web services reduces redundancy and resilience. When one critical provider encounters issues, the effects are immediate and widespread. The absence of instant backup or automated redundancy pathways becomes glaringly obvious during such failures, raising questions about the robustness of our digital dependency.