Cloudflare outage rocks stock amid sell-off

Whenever a major cloud provider has an outage, we are reminded how dependent we are on the internet, and that a very small number of companies control the majority of it. The last AWS outage lasted significantly longer than most people, including experts, had expected. “I don't think this was just a ‘stuff happens’ outage. I would have expected a full remediation much faster,” Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at Hunter Strategy, told Wired. In addition to causing numerous servic ...