Why Cloud Outages Turn Identity Systems into a Critical Business Risk

Recent large-scale cloud outages have become increasingly visible. Incidents involving major providers like AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare have disrupted vast portions of the internet, knocking critical websites and services offline. Because so many digital platforms are interconnected, these failures often cascade, stopping applications and workflows that organizations depend on daily.

For everyday users, the impact usually feels like a temporary annoyance—difficulty ordering food, streaming shows, or accessing online tools. For enterprises, the consequences are far more damaging. If an airline’s reservation platform goes down, every minute of downtime can mean lost bookings, revenue leakage, reputational harm, and operational chaos.

These events make it clear that cloud failures go well beyond compute and networking issues. One of the most vulnerable—and business-critical—areas affected is identity. When authentication or authorization systems fail, the problem is no longer simple downtime; it becomes a fundamental operational and security crisis.

Cloud providers are not identity platforms themselves, but modern identity architectures rely heavily on cloud-hosted infrastructure and shared services. Even if an identity provider remains technically operational, disruptions elsewhere in the stac

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