Cloud reliability keeps improving, not declining — 99.95–99.99% uptime is standard, and the median priority-1 incident resolves in just 25 minutes. Today's Cloudflare disruption fit that pattern exactly: a fiber cut, fixed within hours via routine traffic engineering. Outages make headlines precisely because they're rare. The data shows resilience getting better, not a system on the verge of collapse.
This is what happens when mail, DNS, authentication and security all run through the same handful of providers. The internet was built to route around damage, but convenience has rebuilt it around single points of failure. A fiber cut shouldn't be able to degrade services across two continents at once. That it can is the real story, not how fast it got patched.
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