Hacker News Reader

Feels like internet is not anymore distributed thing that if one website/node goes down others keep working...

Feels like in future... If cloud provider goes down... All internet will stop working :)

This is pretty much the case. Years of evangelising the idea that (a) everybody should be on Amazon and (b) everybody should be on the cheapest regions of Amazon mean that while the underlying datacentres are probably much better managed, individually speaking, than the tapestry of colos that made up the world a decade ago, an outage has much more wide-ranging effects than you'd get at that point.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com