🧵Centralized cloud services fail, but Filecoin remains online In short: The AWS outage on October 20, 2025, exposed the internet's dependence on centralized infrastructure. Filecoin's decentralized network, coupled with new upgrades, provides reliability unmatched by any single provider. 1/ Centralized Service Outage On October 20, 2025, an outage in the AWS US-East-1 region disrupted large parts of the internet. Coinbase, Robinhood, Signal, Snapchat, and even HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) were all down. Over 15,000 incident reports were received before the issue was contained. 2/ Single Point of Failure AWS later traced the problem to a DNS outage that affected over 80 services. This incident demonstrated the fragility of global systems when a few cloud platforms host the majority of applications. A single regional outage triggered a global outage in a matter of minutes. 3/ Centralized Control AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud control over 60% of enterprise infrastructure. Their dominance makes service outages systemic. Even many Web3 applications have been taken offline because their APIs and nodes still rely on centralized hosts. The core of the internet remains vulnerable. 4/ Filecoin's Architecture Filecoin runs on thousands of independent storage providers, offering over 3.8 exabytes of capacity, 1,300 pibytes of active transactions, and a 31% utilization rate. No single operator or region can disrupt the network. Uptime relies on cryptographic proof, not trust. 5/ Improving the Foundation Filecoin Pins add crypto-native IPFS persistence. Proof of data ownership introduces auditable hot storage. F3 fast finality reduces confirmation times by 100x. USDFC liquidity surged from $93,000 to $301,000 between March and June.