# Fraud Doesn't Sleep--Your Infrastructure Can't Either

DevFeed: [Fraud Doesn't Sleep--Your Infrastructure Can't Either](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fraud-doesn-t-sleep-your-infrastructure-can-t-either-23786.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/fraud-doesnt-sleep-infrastructure-can't>)

Author: Harsh Shah

Published: 2026-02-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroach-labs.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Amazon SageMaker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-sagemaker.md>), [Amazon Bedrock](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-bedrock.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [event driven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/event-driven.md>), [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [event-driven](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-driven.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [outages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outages.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that fraud defenses should remain resilient during cloud-provider and regional outages. It presents CockroachDB with AWS AI services, including Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, as components of a globally distributed, low-latency, event-driven fraud decisioning architecture.

## Source excerpt

Two major cloud outages in two weeks made one thing painfully clear: your fraud defenses can't depend on any single region or provider being perfect all the time. Microsoft's Azure Front Door misconfiguration rippled through widely used services and status systems, just days after a separate AWS incident disrupted thousands of apps globally. These weren't niche blips--they were broad shocks to the digital economy.