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> Purely speculating here, but I wouldn't put it past AWS or another large player acquiring them soon.

Internet™ by Amazon.

I really hope it doesn't come to this. I assume such a move would create a vacuum for a competitor. Not everyone wants to be completely owned by AWS.

> an increase in major Cloudflare customers and presumably, revenue. Even ISPs like T-Mobile faced issues due to the Cloudflare outage!

Careful about this methodology. Some services at my org were impacted despite not being direct CloudFlare customers. They had external dependencies that used CloudFlare.

So it's much bigger proverbial 'blast-radius' lest something happen to CloudFlare? Can you elaborate a bit on that part? I'm interested in knowing more.

Simple case of dependencies failing. Not much to elaborate.

e.g. NPM.js uses CloudFlare DNS, so services which needed to talk to NPM.js weren't able to do so.

> I wouldn't put it past AWS or another large player acquiring them soon.

I really hope it doesn't come to this sadly. I'd be okay with DO or somebody who isn't as massive doing a merger. Maybe they can pull resources to make each other even successful and maintaining reasonable independence.