When AWS went down, payments failed and digital life froze — exposing how fragile our cloud-based world really is. In this episode of Digital Identity Digest, Heather Flanagan explores why AWS, Stripe, Twilio, and Okta have become the new critical infrastructure of global commerce.

Discover how invisible digital dependencies shape resilience, why uptime isn’t true stability, and what “too big to fail” means in the age of APIs. Essential listening for anyone in digital identity, cloud computing, cybersecurity, or tech policy.