Are We Breaking The Internet?

A recent giant cloud outage and other big accidents offer a good opportunity to reflect on the curious, perilous architecture of the web. A recent giant cloud outage and other big accidents offer a good opportunity to reflect on the curious, perilous architecture of the web. Recent outages from critical services across the net have created massive disruption in recent weeks: Whether it was Amazon's S3 service failure, which took down thousands of sites, Cloudflare's "Cloudbleed" security issue, ...