When Complexity Becomes the Real Outage
Today’s AWS outage isn’t just about having too many eggs in one basket. It’s about what happens when that basket becomes too complex to understand.
AWS is a masterpiece of engineering — but also a web of countless moving parts. A single hiccup deep in the system can ripple through millions of services worldwide. And then the real struggle begins: finding that one tiny fault in an ocean of automation and interdependencies.
Today, they were lucky. The issue was found quickly. But the impact was still enormous. Imagine what happens when the symptoms point in the wrong direction; it could take hours or even days before the real cause surfaces.
The truth is simple: the bigger and smarter an infrastructure becomes, the harder it is to keep it under control.
Complexity, not failure, is the silent enemy of uptime.
This is the sixth post in a new series called Behind the Uptime, written by Patrick, CEO and owner of 040Hosting, where I’ll share insights, decisions, and the thinking behind how we run a stable, fast, and honest hosting platform—offering a peek behind the curtain of what keeps your sites running smoothly every single day.
