P.01Cloud & Infrastructure/Reliability··5 min read
The AWS CloudFront Outage That Took Down Canvas, Blackboard, and Hugging Face at Once
A 3-hour-33-minute CloudFront VPC Origins failure on July 16, 2026 knocked out at least ten unrelated services worldwide. The root cause was a single-ingress design decision, and it's a pattern worth checking your own architecture for.
AWSCloud & InfrastructureReliability
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