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This event underscores a broader concern: the overreliance on a handful of dominant cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Experts warn that this centralization creates a single point of failure. When these tech giants experience outages, the effects are felt globally, disrupting economies, company operations, and day-to-day life.
The analogy often used by tech commentators likens the internet’s infrastructure to a table supported by four legs. Remove one, and the entire system risks collapsing. Currently, reliance on three or four major players makes the entire ecosystem fragile and prone to catastrophic failures.