Foundations in Freefall: Diagnosing the Hidden Technical Debt Destroying Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
Across American enterprises, cloud infrastructure is quietly deteriorating beneath layers of workarounds, deferred upgrades, and unexamined legacy dependencies. The organizations that ignore these warning signs rarely see the crisis coming until a single failure cascades into a full-scale outage. This investigation examines how technical debt accumulates, what it costs, and how to stop the decay before it becomes catastrophic.