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I would expect there are BGP issues that could do that, at least for large swaths of the internet.

I do also remember in one of the recent AWS outages, the google cloud compute service had lower availability due to failovers hitting all at once

> "We stayed online when GCP, AWS, and Azure go down" is a different story. On the other hand, if those three go down simultaneously, I suspect the state of the world will be such that I'm not worried about the internet.

If nothing else, with those three all down, so will most news sources be -- so even if you're up, your customers won't get to hear about it.