Amazon has become too powerful as a central dependency for the internet, and this outage serves as a warning for the dangers of over-reliance on a single provider.

“Not because we are giving an American mega corporation so much power and putting them in a position where they can where they are the the the the the the keystone of the entire freaking online lives lives that we live. Well, combine it with Cloudflare and it's like even crazier.”

The combination of AWS and Cloudflare creates a fragile infrastructure where even small failures can have widespread consequences.

“And and to to to give the discussion question some some credit the the AWS plus Cloudflare combo is a particularly devastating uh you know, two support beams to just chop right at the knees if you wanted to hurt the internet.”