'Digital Suez' moment – how the AWS outage became logistics' new chokepoint
The lesson is unambiguous
Just a month after what I labelled as ’Digital Suez’ sent shockwaves through the world’s logistics networks, another chokepoint has emerged.
This time at the internet’s very edge.
A major outage at Cloudflare yesterday cut off access to countless logistics platforms (the most prominent we spotted: UPS, more here), freight systems and industry news sites, including The Loadstar itself, in what some in the sector are already calling the ’Digital Panama’.
The disruption rendered many digital supply chain platforms unreachable. And, as reported by ...
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