Irony alert: > "But technology providers in the United States could suffer blowback. As Dyn fell under recurring attacks on Friday, Mr. York, the chief strategist, said such assaults were the reason so many companies are pushing at least parts of their infrastructure to cloud computing networks, to decentralize their systems and make them harder to attack." Pushing your infrastructure to cloud computing is not decent…
There's also the difference between cabled systems, in which multiple elements can independently support load, and chained systems, in which any given link can fail.
The BBC was affected by the Dyn outage not because they themselves relied on Dyn, but because components of their site did.