Tim Beyers
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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing · AWS Goes AWOL: Are we Too Dependent on the Cloud? · 20 Oct 2025
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And what it was subject to, we don't know if it was an attack or just an
error, it was subject to an outage in the DNS system, the domain name server system.
When that happens, when the DNS goes out, and you probably have heard of this, a distributed denial of service attack, that's meant to attack the DNS.
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?
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