cloudquake
/ˈklaʊdˌkweɪk/nounVerified NewA cascade failure in which one cloud provider's outage simultaneously topples the unrelated services built on top of it.
The doorbells, the banks, the games, the airlines — all different companies, all one outage. Cloudquake is infrastructure's true geography revealed in a morning: everything rests on fewer floors than anyone assumed.
Etym. — *cloud* + *quake*; the epicenter under someone else's server room.
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