Why one cloud outage takes down half the Internet
Concentration risk: why so much of the Internet sits on so few clouds
Three companies take most of the money the world spends on the cloud. Why so much of the Internet ends up on so few providers, and why one bad morning at one of them stops apps that have nothing in common.
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Back to your ticket app and its bill. A second home could double it, every month of the year, against a bad morning that comes once in a while. You keep one region. It is a sensible choice.
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And you are far from alone. In the third quarter of 2025, of all the money that companies spent on renting computers and services in the cloud, nearly two thirds went to just three cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft and Google.
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