The irony of the modern cloud: forgetting the scope of IP

The irony of modern times: forgetting the fundamental scope of the technologies we build on.
The Internet Protocol (IP) was originally designed by pioneers to be inherently decentralized and war-resistant. Its core engineering purpose was to dynamically reroute packets around damage to survive massive, distributed physical attacks.
But modern cloud computing has created the exact opposite.Instead of true decentralization, we have hyper-centralized our global infrastructure into massive, localized data center clusters. ⁠AWS divides coverage by distinct geographic regions, guaranteeing high availability through exactly three Availability Zones (AZs).Look at what happened to the AWS UAE region (me-central-1). Two of the three Availability Zones were significantly impaired simultaneously due to sudden physical infrastructure impacts. The remaining third zone was instantly strained to its limits from the massive traffic overflow trying to failover.When multi-AZ setups fail because the physical world cuts through our logical abstractions, we have to ask ourselves: Have we built a network that is less resilient than the legacy protocol it runs on?
We traded a distributed web of independent nodes for a handful of digital fortresses. And when a fortress shakes, the whole region goes dark.