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The internet runs on BGP, I would think that most internet issues would be a result of BGP then.

There are lots of other causes of incidents, like cut cables, failed router hardware, data centers losing power etc.

It just seems that most of these are local enough and the Internet resilient enough that they don't cause global issues. Maybe the exception would be AWS us-east-1 outages :-)

Maybe a testament to BGP's effectiveness that so many large-scale outages are due to misconfiguring BGP rather than the frequent cable cuts and hardware failures that BGP routes around.

BGP is the reason you don't hear about cable cuts taking down the internet.

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