When web services provider Cloudflare went down on Tuesday, a significant portion of the internet became unavailable.

These events have highlighted how the consolidation of internet services can amplify the impact of any single disruption. AWS controls roughly 32 percent of the cloud provider market, with Azure close behind at 23 percent. Cloudflare, meanwhile, supports around 20 percent of the global web.

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When Bob Sutor hears about squabbles over definitions for key Web services standards, he dismisses them as little more than passing headlines. "These things will play out," says Sutor, who directs IBM's Web services strategy and is a key figure in the Web ...

Cloudflare, one of the largest providers of internet services for websites, said just before 7:00 a.m. Eastern that it had begun investigating the issue.

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Impacted websites included X, formerly Twitter, Axios, Indeed, Canva and Downdetector, a website that tracks web outages.