What happens when you layoff 16,000 people and your data center gets hit by drones?

For over a decade, the promise of the cloud has been rooted in invincibility. It was pitched as an omnipresent, decentralized safety net, immune to the physical limitations of traditional on-premise servers. But over the past week, a volatile mix of severe corporate downsizing and a geopolitical flashpoint has shattered that illusion.

The recent elimination of 16,000 corporate roles at Amazon combined with an unprecedented military drone strike on Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the Middle East has laid bare the tech giant’s Achilles heel: the hyper-centralization of physical infrastructure, managed by a rapidly shrinking human workforce.

This afternoon I needed to make a major business purchase from Amazon and they barely functional. No prices on products, no purchases could be made, but they kept showing me images of "The Dogs of Amazon."

Anyone trusting their company to a cloud provider like AWS may want to think twice since the loss of an single Amazon datacenter caused a prolonged global outage of their OWN SERVICES.

Thoughts?