When one cloud falls, the world gets wet. The AWS outage yesterday was more than a glitch — it was a glimpse. A single company had a hiccup, and half the internet held its breath. Cloud computing was sold as “resilience.” What we saw was dependency — thousands of systems tied to the same nerve center, waiting for Amazon to wake up. This is the hidden cost of convenience: when you outsource your infrastructure, you outsource your sovereignty. Centralization always ends in fragility. If one failure can silence a global chorus of apps, maybe it’s time to rethink who holds the switch — and whether we should all be plugged into the same socket. Decentralization isn’t ideology. It’s risk management for a world where even the sky can crash.