#69: Is the Internet Really Decentralized?

The internet is “decentralized”… until one cloud provider has a bad day. This time on DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo, and Kirill break down where decentralization actually exists, where we’ve centralized by convenience, and why outages feel inevitable in today’s cloud-driven world. In this episode:

• What “decentralized internet” really means — protocols vs. reality
• Why major outages (Cloudflare, AWS, DNS) expose hidden centralization
• Single points of failure: clouds, CDNs, certificate authorities, and power grids
• From infrastructure to geopolitics: how political borders affect the internet
• Disaster recovery trade-offs: cost, downtime, and realistic expectations for teams
• Practical advice: how much resilience is enough — and what not to blindly trust

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Show Notes

• 2025 Year In Review, DA episode with additional discussion of this topic
• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
• Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

Podcast editing: Mila Jones / [e-mail]