This Week in Tech (Audio) TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency
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Oct 27, 2025 
Join Doc Rock, a YouTube creator and tech strategist, and Richard Campbell, a cloud expert and podcaster, as they dissect the recent Amazon cloud outage. They explore how this event exposed our reliance on technology, the vulnerabilities of smart devices, and the need for offline solutions. The duo also delves into the implications of tech monopolies, practical resilience strategies in cloud computing, and even a warning about malware-laden YouTube videos. Tune in for an insightful dive into digital fragility and the future of tech!
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Single-Region Risks Cascade Globally
- The AWS US-East outage showed how single-region dependencies cascade into global failures.
- Many services thought they were multi-region but discovered hidden single points of failure.
Design For Real Multi-Region Resilience
- Test and configure failover so your product doesn't depend on one region like US-East.
- Design for graceful degradation and verify multi-region behavior before a crisis.
Smart Mattress Bluetooth Quirk
- Doc Rock described seeing LG Bluetooth devices from his mattress and questioned why mattresses need app reliance.
- Leo and Doc noted some beds include battery backups, showing mixed vendor preparedness.
