Google Meet, Snapchat, ChatGPT: The internet keeps breaking and users are the first to feel it

A string of outages over the past month — from AWS to Cloudflare — knocked out apps like Snapchat, X and ChatGPT, exposing how easily the modern internet can break. Users first blamed their Wi-Fi, but experts say these failures stem from deep issues inside a handful of cloud giants that now power most online services.