Group 1 - Social media platform X experienced outages affecting over 5,600 users in the US, as reported by Downdetector [1] - Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, also faced issues that impacted other services, although the relationship between the outages remains unclear [1][2] - The outages are part of a pattern observed with other major platforms like AWS and Azure, indicating a broader issue within large-scale service providers [2][3] Group 2 - The scale of platforms like Cloudflare allows for low costs and enhanced security tools, benefiting even small organizations [3] - However, when such large platforms experience failures, the impact is widespread and felt by many users simultaneously [3]