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With me, our longtime Fools, David Beyer and Tom King.

It's great to have you both here.

So, guys, just a few hours ago, recording on Monday morning, Amazon Web Services suffered a pretty catastrophic outage in one of the eastern U.S.

regions.

and businesses that offer essential digital services have taken a hit here.

This isn't the first time we've seen AWS go down, and it's not going to be the last, especially with the scale of the AI build-out of which AWS plays a pretty big part.

So quick reactions here first, and Tom, I'll start with you.

Are you at all surprised by this news?

Why or why not?

Yeah.

I mean, that's a fair point.

I mean, these, these things are made up of like those, you know, we've seen these commercials before Dave, where you have the dominoes all lined up and you hit one of those dominoes and they all start falling.

Like what's your reaction to this?

I don't know if there is a Jeff Bezos shakes head approvingly meme, but I think you'd be getting that right now, Dave.

I mean, it is interesting.