What happens when a single platform outage impacts half the internet? This week, Matthias Reinwarth is joined by Martin Kuppinger and Alexei Balaganski to analyze the recent Cloudflare disruption and what it means for modern digital infrastructure.
🔑 Key Topics Covered:
✅ What happened during the Cloudflare outage and why it was so disruptive
✅ How platformization and consolidation increased systemic risk
✅ The shift from decentralized internet ideals to dependency on global platforms
✅ Lock-in challenges: hyperscalers, CDNs, and cloud services
✅ Understanding the hidden risks of convenience and integration
✅ Why organizations neglect risk management and how to correct it
✅ Business impact analysis: mapping critical services and dependencies
✅ How to architect for resilience, failover, and exit strategies
💡 Your Next Step: Evaluate your digital supply chain, map your dependencies, and identify where platform concentration creates unacceptable business risk. Small architectural decisions today can dramatically reduce the impact of tomorrow’s outages.
