Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong(theregister.com)
theregister.com
Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/aws_outage_myths_reality/
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/aws_outage_myths_reality/
Aside from a few tangential rants, this seems to match the coverage I had read.
>Widespread issues trend toward DNS because it is just that important to how the entirety of modern computing works today.
This one would be a correction of my understanding though. So problems conferred on DNS because everything uses DNS? I was under the impression it was a bit of an opaque rats nest that is prone to have propagation issues that can seem non-deterministic if the wrong bits are flipped. It has some notoriety. If that's entirely heresy then I suppose that's a slight update to understanding.