There are many points of failure on the internet. The whole thing is quite fragile actually. If the three major cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure disappeared overnight and didn't come back for weeks, it would be big trouble for everything.
Just minor server issues. Sites still work. The interesting part is that it's affecting these companies at the same time.
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There are many points of failure on the internet. The whole thing is quite fragile actually. If the three major cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure disappeared overnight and didn't come back for weeks, it would be big trouble for everything.