The internet experienced its shakiest weeks in history as three giants—AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare—all suffered massive, successive outages. We connect the dots between these distinct failures to expose the single point of risk that underlies the entire digital economy. 🛑

We dive into the technical diversity of the collapses: from the latent defect in AWS's DynamoDB DNS automation in US East 1 (Grand Central Station of the internet) to the human configuration fault in Azure Front Door, and the control plane failure that crippled Cloudflare's security layer. These weren't hacks; they were fundamental structural breakdowns that proved the cost of automation is vulnerability. 📉

The real-world impact was catastrophic: air traffic control systems, banking platforms, Microsoft 365, and even smart beds went dark because their control logic was hosted remotely. This crisis immediately shifted the debate from technical troubleshooting to digital sovereignty. 👑

We break down the regulatory response, specifically calls from the UK's CMA for structural remedies. Experts are demanding lower egress pricing and mandatory interoperability to break the vendor lock-in that makes moving data between clouds prohibitively expensive, arguing that true resilience requires proactive diversification.