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Seems to be semi regular now that everyone puts all their eggs in only a few baskets.

I gotta say, it's kinda nice when that happens... work just kinda pauses for everyone, from providers to customers. It kinda feels like a national holiday, and everyone downstream from the affected cloud can just kinda sit back and relax cuz there's nothing they can do anyway except wait.

When it's your own outage, it's all-hands-on-deck panic mode. When it's half the internet down, it's no longer your problem, lol

I guess it depends on what your company's acceptable level of downtime is. If you're like Cloudflare (who handled this well), you take this as a sign to build fault tolerance around your 3rd party providers.

If your application is mission-critical, downtime is anything but a holiday.

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