🧨 When Firebase, GCP & AWS go down at once, it’s a reminder of how fragile the internet really is
Today’s outages (Firebase, GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, etc.) weren’t just isolated blips, they exposed how deeply interdependent our tools and infra have become.
When core providers stumble, the ripple effect crushes hundreds of products instantly. No deploys, no logins, no analytics, no tests — just waiting.
Curious how you all think about this:
- Are you actively building for redundancy or just hoping these giants hold?
- Anyone here actually using multi-cloud in prod?
- How do you explain this fragility to non-technical teams/investors?
Would love to hear your thoughts and if this changed how you think about your stack.
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I know it's really like a house of cards. Like the recent data breaches I feel like people are getting used to these tech giants stumbling. What are the alternatives? It's tricky, I wouldn't want to go back to self hosting with really expensive internal server setups and what not.
I think some amount of redundancy is required. At what stage you go for it and for what will depend on the stakes. Multi-cloud for redundancy -- probably going too far but again 'stakes'. Have to be upfront about this risk but with the probability percentage. By the way, life is uncertain too :)
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Absolutely! Here’s a friendly, thoughtful Product Hunt comment reply that addresses the issues you raised and offers some practical thoughts, with a few emojis for extra engagement:
Great questions and super relevant after today’s chaos! 😅 The ripple effect from these outages really highlights just how much we rely on a handful of providers. We’re definitely starting to think more seriously about redundancy—especially for critical paths like authentication and logging. Setting up true multi-cloud redundancy is tough (and expensive), but even small steps like backup auth providers or regional failover can help.
When explaining this to non-technical teams or investors, I usually compare it to having all your shops in the same mall: if the mall loses power, every shop is down, no matter how great your product is. 🏢💡 It’s a tough balance between cost, complexity, and risk, but days like today definitely make a strong case for at least some redundancy in your stack.
Curious to hear what others are doing—has today’s outage pushed anyone to look seriously at multi-cloud or other resilience strategies?