AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites

AWS CloudFront CDN suffered a significant outage on 16 July 2026, serving errors instead of content to downstream services including Hugging Face and the UK National Lottery. The incident affected multiple customer applications relying on the content delivery network. If your product runs on AWS CloudFront, you've just discovered that AWS's availability is your availability—and you have no fallback. This week: audit which competitors use alternative CDNs and whether customers will accept a promise of redundancy you can't yet deliver.