When the Internet Breaks: The AWS Outage of 2024
Update: 2025-10-20
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Internet Apocalypse: The web went haywire on October 20th thanks to a massive Amazon Web Services outage! Millions found themselves cut off from essential services like Coinbase, Fortnite, and even Amazon's own Ring cameras. The culprit? A DNS meltdown, the internet's phone book, leaving users staring at blank screens and businesses scrambling. Was it a glitch, a bug, or something more? This episode dives into the fragility of our hyper-connected world and asks: can we prevent the next internet blackout?
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