Recently, two of the internet’s biggest pillars - AWS and Cloudflare - both stumbled.
Not because of attacks.
Not because of “once in a century” events.
But because even the most trusted infrastructures can fail.
And that’s the part we don’t talk about enough.
We built a world where everything depends on systems most people never see.
Payments. Banking. Messaging. Workflows. Loyalty. Logistics. Healthcare. Communication.
All of it sits on layers of technology held together by trust and assumptions.
When one of those layers slips, even for a moment, the world stutters.
These outages weren’t just downtime. They were reminders:
- Our digital world is more fragile than it looks.
- Resilience isn’t a feature; it’s a responsibility.
- And dependency without awareness is a silent risk.
Most users shrugged and refreshed their apps.
But builders, leaders, operators - we should feel the weight of the warning.
This wasn’t about AWS.
It wasn’t about Cloudflare.
It was about us.
About the way we design, trust, and rely on systems without truly understanding their limits.
The internet is strong.
But it is not unbreakable.
And the last month quietly whispered a truth:
We are only as resilient as the parts we forget to look at.
Also visit: https://quangntenemy.substack.com/p/when-the-invisible-fails-a-reminder
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