#OMG... Severe internet outages keep happening -- and they might get worse. NBC NEWS: Growing reliance on a handful of major internet infrastructure companies has led to major disruption While there’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around, two things are clear: Popular consumer businesses increasingly rely on a handful of giant companies that run things more cheaply in the cloud. When one of those companies isn’t extraordinarily careful, an obscure software vulnerability or tiny mistake can reverberate through to many of their customers, making it seem like half the internet has been unplugged. “This spate of outages has been uniquely terrible,” said Erie Meyer, the former chief technical officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Biden administration... nbcnews.com/tech/rcna245043 #TechnologyNewswire #InternetOutage, #CloudFailure, #TechNews, #DigitalDisruption, #CyberBug, #AWSDown, #AzureCrash, #CloudflareFail, #Hyperscalers, #BigTech, #InternetBreakdown, #SoftwareVulnerability, #DNSFail, #CloudComputing, #TechConsolidation, #GlobalOutage, #CyberAttackScare, #ErieMeyer, #ElizabethWarren, #TechRegulation, #MarketFailure, #NationalSecurity, #CrowdStrike, #OpenAI, #DiscordDown, #RobloxOffline, #FortniteFail, #DeltaAirlines, #AlaskaAir, #SmartHomeFail, #RingCamera, #Akamai, #PublicCitizen, #BidenAdmin, #VanderbiltPolicy, #InfrastructureRisk, #TechGiantMonopoly, #CloudReliability, #FutureOfInternet, #SystemicRisk, #GovOversight, #DigitalEconomy, #OutageSpree, #BotSoftwareBug, #ConfigError