A new industry report dubs 2025 “The Year the Cloud Went Dark,” citing massive outages at AWS (October DNS failure), Azure (configuration errors), and Ingram Micro (ransomware). The data shows that “dependencies” were the single biggest point of failure, where a single glitch cascaded into global disruptions.
Business Impact
This report validates the need for “Multi-Cloud” or “Hybrid” resilience strategies. Relying on a single provider for DNS, compute, and authentication proved catastrophic for thousands of companies this year. Boardrooms will be asking for “Exit Strategies” in Q1 2026.
Why It Happened
The centralization of the internet means that configuration errors at hyperscalers now have global kinetic impacts. The AWS US-East-1 failure alone cost the global economy billions in lost productivity.
Recommended Executive Action
Use this report to justify your 2026 budget requests for “Disaster Recovery” (DR) testing. Ensure your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) includes a scenario where your primary cloud provider is offline for 24+ hours.
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