Tim Beyers

If you do that, if you take down the DNS, it's like you having your phone and suddenly all your contacts, you can't

pressed to call anybody because your contacts are frozen.

The phone book in your phone just no longer works.

You can't call anybody.

When the DNS is down, that's what happens.

The DNS determines when you say google.com, there's an underlying IP address that's a series of numbers, and it translates google.com to those numbers.

And when that's down, you can't do that, which means the internet just stops functioning.

So, this appears to be what happened here.

I'm kind of curious, because the affected companies include Coinbase, Robinhood, Roblox, a bunch of others.

Two questions from me, and I'll start with you this time, Dave.

You said, effectively, you're surprised this isn't happening more, but I'd like to gauge your concerns.

Are you at all concerned with how much influence AWS has over modern compute?

And are we creating any kind of single point of failure here?

Yeah.

Tom, I'm curious how you think about this, because this is an issue.

Digital businesses need to have that digital infrastructure to do business, and that infrastructure is now largely outsourced.

How do you think about this?

I love that you called server rooms, cold rooms.

I love that you called it that, because you go into a server room, and yes, it's intending to be cold.

Get too close to a server, you stop being cold real fast.