When a major outage hit Amazon Web Services this week, websites and apps started falling like dominoes -- from Square to Duolingo, Netflix, and Adobe, why do so many major players rely on a single company to host their data? And should we be calling time on these pseudo tech-monopolies?

Also, we investigate whether its actually true that your iPhone slows down every time a new one is released, and what’s going to happen to the 400 million computers that are going to become obsolete thanks to the Windows 11 update.

Plus, Instagram has announced new teen controls for parents, but will they have any impact in Australia after the teen social media ban comes into effect?

GUESTS:

David Braue, technology journalist at Cybercrime Magazine
Alex Kidman, technology journalist at Alex Reviews Tech

This episode of Download This Show was made on Gadigal land and in Naarm.

Technical production by Craig Tilmouth and Matthew Sigley.

How did a global Amazon outage bring down almost 50 other major tech companies?