It was sage advice written centuries ago and well worth revisiting today: "It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket."

The hopelessly romantic Don Quixote may have foolishly tilted at windmills but this one quote, penned by Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes, is entirely pragmatic. Especially these days when the world so heavily relies on technology to keep ticking over.

A host of websites and their associated businesses were reminded of the dangers of storing eggs in the one basket when Amazon Web Services suffered an outage this week, which blacked out half the internet across the world, disrupting businesses and sending TikTok and Snapchat junkies into enforced cold turkey.

The problem was that so much of the internet relies

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