This fall, we’ve had quite a bit of a cloud headache, I don’t know if you’ve noticed. That is, AWS, Azure , and then Cloudflare . All of them down, one after the other. A series of outages that showed us something very serious: today, a stupid internal configuration error or a mess of metadata is the modern equivalent of a massive blackout. Yes, that’s right. Within four weeks, all three giants went down, and each time the problem came from within , from the providers’ own infrastructure. It wasn’t that there were too many people, or the seasonal peak, or some