A significant outage at a major cloud infrastructure provider knocked thousands of websites offline, sending shockwaves through the digital ecosystem. The incident highlights how reliant modern platforms—including many in the crypto and Web3 space—are on centralized cloud services. For those running DeFi platforms, exchanges, or blockchain services on these infrastructures, this kind of widespread disruption is a stark reminder of concentration risk. When critical infrastructure goes down, it doesn't discriminate. Projects operating on vulnerable stacks faced real downtime. It's the kind of event that sparks conversations about decentralization—not just in blockchain, but in the very backbone of the internet.