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A rare alignment of failures across multiple hyperscale providers in 2025 turned routine cloud operations into a stress test for the global internet, producing multi‑hour outages that knocked popular apps, enterprise services and even public institutions offline—and left engineers, regulators...

The year 2025 closed with a very public reminder that hyperscale clouds are both the engine and the Achilles’ heel of the modern internet: a handful of control‑plane failures, configuration mistakes and a single high‑impact ransomware campaign produced a string of outages that affected millions...

When two headline-grabbing cloud failures struck in rapid succession this October, the outages did more than break apps and frustrate users — they reopened an urgent national conversation about how much of the country’s digital life depends on a handful of hyperscale providers, and whether...