By Stephen Kelly

Most of us take the internet for granted.

It hums along almost invisibly, like electricity, until it doesn’t. Today, much of the internet stopped working due to an Amazon Web Services outage, which caused many of the world’s biggest websites and apps to go down. With this, we’ve glimpsed the brittle truth that our digital infrastructure suffers like a house of cards.

Every financial transaction, hospital record, and slice of national security rests on a tiny number of internet giants. When one element falters, the ripple effects threaten our economy, public safety and everyday life. We have seen recently how big businesses like M&S, the Co-Op and Jaguar Land Rover have been unable to operate without having access to their data. These events, now far too common an occurrence, are evidence of systemic weakness.

The fundamental........

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