What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

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10. No. It's clear from WIRED... that it's an ongoing review problem for big cloud services, which AWS is.

“When the system couldn't correctly resolve which server to connect to, cascading failures took down services across the internet,” says Davi Ottenheimer, a longtime security operations and compliance manager and a vice president at the data infrastructure company Inrupt. “Today's AWS outage is a classic availability problem, and we need to start seeing it more as data integrity failure.”

This problem is more likely to come with massive scale global computing. Its customer base are entities like
NASA, the CIA, more than 80% of Germany's listed DAX companies, the U.S. Navy, DISH Network, GCHQ, MI5, MI6, the Ministry of Defence, and since 2022, Amazon shared a $9 billion contract from the United States Department of Defense for cloud computing with Google, Microsoft, and Oracle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

That doesn't mean that there no nefarious occurrences, there are; just not this time.
If there were, we wouldn't know about them, anyway, because a lot of its customers operate under national security classified rules.
While WIRED gives a bit of "reveal" here, what could be a bigger and more serious 'reveal' about the Internet won't come to public knowledge until after it's happened (as in this case), and more likely than not, never.

DNS attacks are increasing mostly because of AI use, which tells you that AI isn't in good customer hands, and itself exponentially causes big scale computing problems.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4055796/why-domain-based-attacks-will-continue-to-wreak-havoc.html