What happens when ONE “cloud” hiccup in Virginia slams the brakes on your life—smart beds trap sleepers, Alexa goes dumb, Venmo sputters, and enterprise apps face-plant? Frank & Dr. Dustin break down Monday’s AWS DNS outage, why the internet’s “old bones” (DNS/IPv4) still run everything, how dependency hell spreads a local failure worldwide, and whether Web3/IPv6/real decentralization can stop the next domino run.
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Chapters below. Drop your wildest “my house broke when AWS sneezed” story in the comments. ⬇️
Chapter Breaks
00:00 – Cold Open: “This was Monday” doomsday (beds, banks, Blackboard)
00:50 – DNS for Normals: the internet’s phone book (and why it failed)
02:45 – Single Point of Failure? us-east-1 and the centralization problem
04:03 – “There is no cloud, it’s someone else’s computer” (and your bed’s on it)
05:21 – How a regional outage went global: dependencies & third-party calls
06:40 – SBOMs, supply chain, and internet-scale dependency hell
07:24 – Pi-hole story: when your home DNS goes down, everything stops
09:12 – Resiliency vs reality: why some services lived while others died
10:45 – The domino stack: uptime, TTLs, and stale DNS making pain linger
12:18 – Could IPv6 help? (and why we still haven’t adopted it)
14:25 – “Second-gen DNS”: what would a safer, faster resolver look like?
16:07 – Monopoly math: if busting big clouds won’t happen, what will?
18:47 – Web3/Blockchain as a decentralized DNS idea—promise & tradeoffs
20:13 – Tor ≠ the model: decentralization without the dark-web baggage
22:20 – AI as infrastructure: power, cost, and more single points of failure
23:53 – Why blockchain never got sexy (and why it still might)
26:24 – Ghosts in the machine? (Spooky season teaser)
27:54 – Wrap: what to do before the next Monday
#aws #dns #outage #cloudcomputing #cybersecurity #web3 #ipv6 #smarthome #supplychain #sbom #devops #incidentresponse
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