Episode 458 - “The Cloud Crashed: When the Net Goes Dark.”
We kick off with the Oct 20, 2025 AWS outage (US-EAST-1)—why “Amazon” going down can break apps you use daily (Reddit, Coinbase, Snapchat, Roku, even some smart-home gear). Shawn explains how DNS resolution at scale works and why a failure there feels like the internet lost its street map. We also touch on a real-world consequence: some Eight Sleep smart beds overheated or got stuck until the company shipped an “outage mode.
That leads us straight into streaming vs. physical media. Prices, ad tiers, and licensing whiplash have many folks rebuilding local libraries. We share practical tools…
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