If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive.
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AWS, Azure, Cloudflare – who’s next?
On October 20th, quite some parts of AWS went down (AWS Outage Analysis: October 20, 2025, What caused the AWS outage – and why did it make the internet fall apart?).
I don’t follow thouse outages very intensly, but the last such outage I remember(!) was end of February 2017 with the big S3 outage (The great Amazon S3 outage of 2017, Amazon And The $150 Million Typo).
Then not even 10 days later, Microsoft Azure‘s Frontdoor had a wide spread service disruption on October 29th, that affected a lot of Azure clients (Microsoft Azure Front Door Outage Analysis: October 29, 2025)
And today, on November 18th, Cloudflare experienced an outage that affects large parts of the internet (Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT, Cloudflare outage: Services globally disrupted)
As if we wouldn’t be talking about digital sovereignty enough … These incidents just show the dependency of large parts of the internet to just a small amount of companies. Not exactly what was intended when the internet was built.
Can we just count days until GCP follows? For Google, I hope that they won’t have an outage in the christmas shopping period.
Update Oct. 19th: heise online nailed it pretty well:
After a series of comments about why we find it stupid to rely on the cloud, we’ve now reached the point where we find it stupid to have to write a comment about it every week.
Nach dem Cloudflare-Ausfall: Digital völlig unsouverän | heise onlineFediverse Reactions
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Mistral – the European ChatGPT
OK, I admit that I’m sometimes too focused on technology to realise that not everyone is aware of all the different AI services out there. — This week, I mentioned Mistral.ai to a colleague and was surprised that he hadn’t heard of it. But, as I said, you can’t know everything.
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Recommended talk: Digital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer Status
This week I came across a post recommending the talk from Molly White (@molly0xff) at SXSW, talking about “Digital Sovereignty Is the New Influencer Status“.
The abstract of the talk is: “The real power move for creators is ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two fediverse futurists how decentralized social media facilitates better publishing, community, and business models. These speakers will cover the theoretical and the practical, including how the landscape is evolving in 2025, where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without “walled garden” social platforms.”
It’s an interesting talk, where she’s talking about how (and WHY) she keeps her content mainly on her website and federates it to some social networks for discovery.
