When DNS Goes Down, Civilisation's Collapse Plays Out in Your Suburban Flat
All right folks, buckle in. Last Monday, the planet just got schooled yet again in why we've put all our digital eggs in one totally cracked basket. AWS US-EAST-1 region had a DNS hiccup and half the world's internet decided it was nap time. Snapchat, Venmo, even the app that tells you if your cat's used the loo, all snuffed out. Why does a digital sneeze in Virginia take out customer payments in Edinburgh? And here's the kicker: this is the third major outage in five years for the same bloody r
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