In the earlier days of the internet, there were no two companies you could pick who, if they had large-scale server issues, would take down a significant portio

In the earlier days of the internet, there were no two companies you could pick who, if they had large-scale server issues, would take down a significant portion of the web. Nowadays, if Cloudflare & AWS have a bad day on the same day a lot of businesses may as well just send their employees home, such is their outsized impact on the internet. (And the internet on our lives, of course.) This happening "for a reason" doesn't change the fact that what is now the case was once not. In 2001, if a particularly well known tech vendor screwed up their DNS, their product website would be down and everyone would shrug and go about their day. In 2022, if a particularly well known tech vendor screws up their DNS, more than 10% of the internet falls over. The fact that I can spin up a server is true, but doesn't help me when I can't pay my bills online because a very large shopping website has gone down.