When Cloud Outages Ripple Across the Internet

The article examines how large cloud outages (e.g., affecting AWS, Azure, Cloudflare) can severely disrupt identity systems that underpin authentication and authorization across applications, APIs, and services. It argues traditional high availability is insufficient due to shared global dependencies, and recommends designing identity resilience through multi-cloud or on-prem alternatives, degraded-mode operation using cached data or precomputed decisions, and intentional availability trade-offs to preserve business continuity.