28M 500 errors/sec for several hours from a single provider. Must be a new record.
No other time in history has one single company been responsible for so much commerce and traffic. I wonder what some outage analogs to the pre-internet ages would be.
Something like a major telco going out, for example the AT&T 1990 outage of long distance calling:
> The standard procedures the managers tried first failed to bring the network back up to speed and for nine hours, while engineers raced to stabilize the network, almost 50% of the calls placed through AT&T failed to go through.
> Until 11:30pm, when network loads were low enough to allow the system to stabilize, AT&T alone lost more than $60 million in unconnected calls.
> Still unknown is the amount of business lost by airline reservations systems, hotels, rental car agencies and other businesses that relied on the telephone network.
Yes, all(most) eggs should not be in one basket. Perfect opportunity to setup a service that checks cloudflare then switches a site's DNS to akami as a backup.
Absolute volume maybe[1], as relative % of global digital communication traffic, the era of early telegraph probably has it beat.
In the pre digital era, East India Company dwarfs every other company in any metric like commerce controlled, global shipping, communication traffic, private army size, %GDP , % of workforce employed by considerable margins.
The default was large consolidated organization throughout history, like say Bell Labs, or Standard Oil before that and so on, only for a brief periods we have enjoyed benefits of true capitalism.
[1] Although I suspect either AWS or MS/Azure recent down-times in the last couple of years are likely higher
No other time in history has one single company been responsible for so much commerce and traffic. I wonder what some outage analogs to the pre-internet ages would be.