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The shift to cloud computing and data storage in recent years has transformed how businesses operate. As hyperscale cloud providers compete for dominance, organisations have gained extraordinary reliability and efficiency at a fraction of traditional infrastructure cost.
However, the dependence on cloud infrastructure has introduced a critical and often underestimated business risk, and that relying on a single data storage provider is now the most dangerous form of convenience.
Despite Service Level Agreements promising three nines (99.9 %) or even four nines (99.99 %) of uptime, outages still occur surprisingly often. Over the past year, every major cloud provider has experienced significant disruptions, from networking faults and DNS automation errors to undersea cable being damaged.
On the 13th of February 2025, AWS experienced a major service disruption in their Stockholm region due to a networking fault. The issue affected connectivity between availability zones, leading to elevated error rates, increased latency, and service timeouts. Dependent services such as Lambda and API Gateway also experienced cascading failures.
On the 12th of June 2025, Google Cloud experienced a widespread service disruption after a malformed quota policy update was deployed to its service-control APIs. The faulty update caused the APIs responsible for managing quotas, billing, and service authorisation to fail globally. The outage led to widespread API errors, failed resource provisioning, and interruptions across all regions until the update was rolled back.
On the 6th of September 2025, Azure services experienced high latency and degradation following multiple fibre-optic cables being damaged in the Red Sea. The damaged cables disrupted major international network routes used by Microsoft’s backbone infrastructure to connect regions in Europe, Africa and Asia. Traffic was rerouted, resulting in increased latency, packet loss and connectivity issues for users in affected regions.
On the 9th of October 2025, Azure experienced widespread authentication failures across Europe and Africa following a capacity loss within Azure Front Door. The reduction in available capacity caused prevented many users from signing into the Azure Portal, Microsoft 365, and other dependent services, blocking their use.
On the 20th of October 2025, AWS experienced a regional outage after a race condition in its internal DNS automation system caused endpoint IP addresses to be overwritten from DNS records. The loss of these records lead to widespread connection failures across multiple AWS services.
On the 29th of October 2025, Microsoft Azure suffered a global service disruption caused by a configuration error within the DNS layer of Azure Front Door, the platform’s global entry point, CDN and load balancing service. The faulty change propagated through Azure’s DNS infrastructure, invalidating critical records used for service authentication and portal access. Users across multiple regions were unable to log into the Azure Portal, authenticate through Azure Active Directory, or access dependent services.
The complexity and interconnection of modern cloud environments mean that a failure in a single component can ripple through an entire provider’s infrastructure. These interdependencies make large-scale failures not just possible, but inevitable.
Relying on a single data storage provider is now the most dangerous form of convenience. True resilience demands diversification, data must remain accessible, sovereign and secure, even when your primary provider goes dark.
Binarii Labs enables continuous data access during outages, ensuring operational continuity and turning cloud dependency into true data control.
The lesson from 2025 is clear: resilience can’t be outsourced. It must be engineered into how you store, secure and access your data, avoiding overdependencies on single vendors.