On AWS/Cloudflare, web centralization, and pride
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This post will be just a complaint with no real solution, but it’s worth keeping as a record of how we perceive our times. Consider yourself warned.
In October 2025, the main AWS region went offline due to a DNS issue in DynamoDB. In November 2025, Cloudflare experienced an outage due to a change in query behavior combined with insufficient safeguards in code. In both cases, “the internet”, this metaphysical entity, suffered, with many services going offline or becoming unusable.