SMRTR TechOct 20, 2025Wired

What the huge AWS outage reveals about the Internet

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A massive AWS outage in northern Virginia disrupted major platforms like Amazon, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, and Venmo due to DNS resolution failures that prevented servers from connecting properly. The three-hour incident highlights how reliance on centralized cloud services creates single points of failure across the internet.

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