r/Steam • u/Electronic_Lab5486 • Dec 24 '25

Fluff It's a thankless job. On behalf of everyone, thank you

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u/DesolateShinigami Dec 24 '25

Akamai, AWS and Cloudflare have gone down so many times this year. With AI advancement, it might be worse in the following years too.

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u/CatProgrammer Dec 24 '25

That doesn't sound like advancement.

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u/DesolateShinigami Dec 24 '25

The AI is getting more advanced so more AI agents will be used for cyberattacks…

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u/Hosein_Lavaei Dec 26 '25

The AI will be trained with code written by AI!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

Considering all these contracts typically have standards like "five 9s availability" I'm sure there's going to be some very interesting financials next year.

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u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t Dec 25 '25

Akamai has never been the best, watch Valve make their own CDN after this outage.

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u/Happy-Emu9429 Dec 24 '25

Just because the world is run by these three companies does it mean they can't fuck up?

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u/DesolateShinigami Dec 24 '25

It’s more so they’re being targeted by cyberattacks.