Published: October 20, 2025 at 1:08 pm
The AWS incident is yet another reminder of the weakness of centralised systems.
When a key component of internet infrastructure depends on a single US cloud provider, a single fault can bring global services to their knees.
Centralised systems may offer convenience and scale, but they also create single points of failure. True resilience comes from decentralisation and self-hosting.
Governments and other organisations must rethink their infrastructure strategies now, or risk being next in line when the cloud goes dark, especially when it comes to their communications.