The cloud has once again evaporated

A major Tier-1 cloud giant decided the internet was too loud and used a lovely cocktail of BGP leaks and faulty firmware to silence it. This little catastrophe took down thousands of websites and e-commerce platforms across North America, Europe, and Asia, leaving everyone to actually talk to their families. To shield ourselves from this inevitable cycle of digital collapse, we should probably stop putting every single egg into one massive, fragile basket and perhaps invest in some actual redundancy for once.