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The Day the Cloud Died: How One Outage Broke Everything
Manage episode 515114028 series 3673385
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
22 episodes
Manage episode 515114028 series 3673385
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.
👂 Audio listeners: subscribe on any podcast platform via our feed: https://legitimatecybersecurity.podbean.com/
🎤 Media & interview requests: [email protected]
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
22 episodes
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