Cloud Providers and single point of failures

A significant portion of the internet was inaccessible yesterday due to a failure at AWS, one of the largest cloud providers. This highlighted the vulnerability of numerous online websites, apps, and platforms that depend on a single cloud provider for their infrastructure, and more broadly, the risks associated with centralization (e.g., single point of failure).

It’s reassuring to know that incidents like this have no impact on this blog, as I don’t rely on external hosting services. It’s 100% under my control. Regardless of whether AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or any other service is down, I’m not affected and nor can anyone censor me.