Morning Brew Daily Amazon Outage Knocks Out the Internet & The iPhone 17 is Saving Apple
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Oct 21, 2025 A massive AWS outage puts a spotlight on cloud centralization and its consequences for countless services. In tech news, the iPhone 17 is boosting Apple’s fortunes with soaring sales in both the U.S. and China. Meanwhile, NASA is seeking new bidders for lunar lander contracts after SpaceX misses key deadlines. The viral '6-7' meme captivates kids, creating ripples in classrooms and pop culture. Lastly, new findings show a surprising decrease in peanut allergies among young children, linked to early introductions of peanuts.
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Cloud Centralization Creates Single Points Of Failure
- AWS's DNS update outage knocked thousands of sites and services offline, revealing cloud concentration risks.
- The incident shows a few cloud providers act as single points of failure for large parts of the internet.
Diversify Cloud Hosting Now
- Companies should pursue multi-cloud resilience to avoid dependency on a single provider like AWS.
- Diversify cloud suppliers to reduce risk of widespread outages from one data-center failure.
iPhone 17 Fueled Apple's Comeback
- iPhone 17 sales jumped versus the prior model, driven by battery, camera, and color updates and long upgrade cycles.
- Roughly 315 million users haven't upgraded in four years, creating a large refresh tailwind for Apple.