AWS, Azure And Cloudflare Outages Expose A Growing Cloud Reliability Crisis — And Why DNS Resilience Is Now Center Stage
As of December 5, 2025, the global internet is once again grappling with reliability questions after a fresh Cloudflare disruption on top of recent outages at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and other core infrastructure providers. At the same time, AWS is rolling out a new Route 53 “Accelerated Recovery” feature and partnering with Google Cloud on a multicloud link designed to make it easier to ride out future failures. Amazon Web Services, Inc.+2Reuters+2 This combination of repeated outages and rapid engineering responses is reshaping the debate about whether the cloud can still be treated as “always on” —