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The internet just had another major global outage. Why does this keep happening?
- karmakaze 1y agoFunny, a telephone book is a good analogy--but some would need that explained. > DNS is like an internet location engine, converting user-friendly web addresses like amazon.com into IP addresses - a series of numbers that other websites and applications can understand.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoNon-syndicated source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/tech/aws-why-internet-outages-keep-happening https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/20/tech/aws-why-internet-outages... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640838
- hdgvhicv 1y agoAll eggs in one basket. The same basket. Because of groupthink. Throw in penny pinching and cost cutting and you run on the edge. Nobody gets a bonus for spending money on backup systems. Nobody gets fired for buying ibm.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 1y agoPart of this is also naïveté of people spinning up systems in AWS us-east-1. Any SRE or operator will tell you to never spin up systems in there unless you have a requirement to do so. It’s long been a tribal knowledge of the instability. This outage is more widespread than others but I see region level outages, at least partial ones, happen there every 1-2 years on average
- hdgvhicv 1y agoOur file deliveries to from s3 failed because despite being eu-west-1/2 authentication relied on us-east-1 From what understand that’s a feature you can’t opt out of. AWS is a single on if failure. The same point used globally by an industry that can’t imagine any other way. Diversity is defence. Monoculture is a strategic weakness.