11/19/2025
So in the past ...month or so, we've seen "outages" caused by 3x of the biggest players of the internet.
Back in late October....Amazon had an outage. Due to an internal DNS configuration change...mistake..."oops". Amazon is a huge "host" for many websites and cloud hosted platforms, storage, etc. Took a while to resolve.
About a week or so after that, Microsoft had an outage...Azure services...some websites, but mostly their 365 platform, hosted virtual servers, hosted virtual desktops, etc. Also an "oops"...an incorrect change in DNS settings was done by a human. (some of us joked that the Amazon guy from prior week...got fired from Amazon and Microsoft hired him). Was resolved fairly quickly.
Yesterday...CloudFlare...which is a very large DNS service, domain registrar...and provides security filtering via DNS, protecting websites, domains, hosted apps, has a global CDN network (cached DNS) Was resolved fairly quickly. This time, not a DNS error, but an error in a security service to help defend their network against bots. Done by a human.
We've generally not experienced a "1, 2, 3 punch" like that in a short period of time....interrupting services so frequently. I'm sure some people may start to question "the cloud". In our experience...(over 25 years as a company, and several of us at Dynamic Alliance are over 35 years in the IT industry)...hosted cloud services are still more reliable than old on prem servers, and the convenience and security of hosted apps outweighs having them "on prem". Even back in the dial up days...email was still "hosted in the cloud". Your AOL, Juno, SNET.NET, websites, etc...still hosted in the cloud. As our internet evolves, and big players evolve, more redundancy will be added, they're learning their lessons. And thankfully, they implement fixes rather quickly.