Western Digital’s My Cloud Outage: Vendor Risk for NAS
WD’s 2023 intrusion took My Cloud services offline mid-extortion claims, locking users out of their own files. Cloud-tethered storage lessons.
AWS us-east-1 Outage: When Multi-Region Wasn’t
A DYNOMITE autoscaler impairment cascaded through AWS’s busiest region and its own consoles. The dependency-concentration landmark.
Fastly CDN Outage 2021: One Config, 10% of the Web Down
No attack, no breach — a single customer config met a dormant software bug and took Reddit, the Guardian, and roughly a tenth of the internet offline for an hour. The concentration-risk wake-up call.