In all three cases all they are doing is providing a platform. The issue with the size of the outages that we’ve seen should be placed on all of the companies that are opting to use them and only them without any regards to redundancy or design.
CloudFlare - There are other CDNs out there such as Akami and CloudFront
AWS - they have multiple regions, not just us-east-1. Also there is GCP and Azure, each with multiple regions
CrowdStrike - Okay there aren’t as many EDRs that do what they do, but it’s still the SPOF basket as the others
In every case I would argue it’s the inexperience, greed and path of least resistance to use these large companies and then blame the providers when something goes wrong, rather than the companies that have chosen to use these platforms. I understand that it’s easier to blame a single entity, but that shouldn’t absolve the companies that use them from being at fault.
Hybrid applications that aren’t architected correctly (I.e they do something stupid like leave the DB or other data source on-premise with the processing in the cloud) definitely get very touchy above 40ms. Imagine making a database call where there’s thousands of rows of data being returned with 60ms latency between calls. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but suddenly it’s taking 10x as long as it solely on premise. Same with file transfers.
not architected correctly… uuuuggghhh if that isn’t the case for far too much infrastructure…