Comment by Telemakhos
4 hours ago
AWS, Azure, now Cloudflare, all within a month, are hit with configuration errors that are definitely neither signs of more surveillance gear being added by government agencies nor attacks by hostile powers. It's a shame that these fine services that everyone apparently needs and that worked so well for so long without a problem suddenly all have problems at the same time.
Most or all of these lost significant institutional knowledge through layoff after layoff and jobs moved to lower cost countries.
Maybe a coincidence or maybe not.
AWS was not a configuration error, it was a race condition on their load balancer's automated DNS record attribution that caused empty DNS records. As that issue was being fixed, it cascaded into further, more complex issues overloading EC2 instance provisioning.
I don't get how you ran to that conclusion...