🧵When Centralized Cloud Services Collapse In short: Azure went down. AWS had also gone down before. Both outages exposed the vulnerability of centralized cloud infrastructure. Filecoin takes a completely different approach, distributing data globally and verifying data integrity through cryptographic proofs. 1/ Outage Events In late October, both Azure and AWS went down. Banks, airports, and government websites were paralyzed for hours due to configuration and DNS errors. The failure in a few regions triggered a global chain reaction. The cause was not an attack, but dependency. 2/ Root Cause The internet operates on a few control planes. Once one fails, a ripple effect occurs. Efficiency comes at the cost of resilience. Each outage demonstrates that centralization is not stable, but rather a concentration of risk. 3/ Alternatives Filecoin distributes data to thousands of independent storage providers across different continents. Each provider must prove that its data is always stored and intact through on-chain proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime. 4/ How to Resist Failures In Filecoin, there are no zone-defined uptimes. Even if one provider goes offline, other providers will continue to hold the data. The absence of a master switch or a single DNS route would cause the network to crash. Reliability stems from distributed systems, not control.