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title: Cloud Outages & Dependency Risk
url: "https://goremy.ai/blog/topic/cloud-outages-dependency-risk"
type: topic
updated: "2026-10-21T00:40:06.990Z"
posts: 7
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# Cloud Outages & Dependency Risk

Cloud outages and dependency risk explained: see what breaks when you rely on GitHub, APIs, SaaS platforms, or domain registrars, and how to prepare for it.

Answers: What happens to my business when a third-party platform I depend on goes down or shuts off?

## Posts (7)

- [What Is the Risk of Third-Party API Dependencies? Real Outage Costs](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/what-is-the-risk-of-third-party-api-dependencies-real-outage) (2026-10-21): What are the risks of third-party API dependencies? See how CrowdStrike, AWS, and Starlink outages cost billions, plus a due-diligence checklist to reduce risk.
- [What Is SaaS Sunsetting? The CoScreen Shutdown Explained](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/what-is-saas-sunsetting-the-coscreen-shutdown-explained) (2026-10-20): Datadog shut down CoScreen in 2026, four years after buying it. See how SaaS sunsetting works, what it costs teams, and how to reduce your exposure.
- [What Happens When a Registrar Seizes Your Domain? Causes and Fixes](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/what-happens-when-a-registrar-seizes-your-domain-causes-and-fixes) (2026-10-20): Learn what happens when a registrar, court, or government seizes your domain, the three ways it occurs, UDRP disputes, and how to reduce the risk of losing it.
- [The Latest Microsoft Patch Disaster Proves the Risk of Forced SaaS Updates](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/risks-of-forced-saas-updates-why-ownership-matters) (2026-10-16): Microsoft's Windows and Excel failures, plus the CrowdStrike outage, show the real risks of forced SaaS updates: no control over timing, no way to opt out.
- [GitHub Is Down, But Local AI Isn't: The Case for Owning Your Dev Stack](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/github-is-down-local-ai-isnt-why-owning-your-stack-wins) (2026-08-29): AWS, Cloudflare, and GitHub all went down in 2025. Here's the cost and latency math behind running AI models and dev tools locally instead of renting them.
- [The Cloud Dev Stack Is Fragile: Why the GitHub Outage Broke Cursor Origin Too](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/cursor-origin-github-outage-why-ai-tools-broke-too) (2026-08-28): GitHub's August 2026 outage broke Cursor Origin, its own AI-native alternative. Here's what that reveals about renting your dev infrastructure.
- [The API Trap: How Cloud Bugs and Usage Fees Are Forcing a Return to Self-Hosting](https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/api-trap-cloud-cost-overruns-driving-self-hosting) (2026-08-26): Cloud billing bugs and API overage fees are pushing companies back to self-hosted, open-source tools. Here's the real math on cloud API cost overruns.