The web’s infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outages — from AWS and Azure to Cloudflare, the perils of having a centralized internet are being felt by all

Internet outages happen all the time. Just this week, the recent Cloudflare outage disrupted millions of users. The infrastructure on which our digital lives are built is precarious and often prone to errors. When those happened, they used to have a small impact. A website’s servers crashing would bring down only that website and anything that relied on it. But as the web has become more centralised in its infrastructure, with a handful of companies dominating the market, any individual issue has the…