P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

AWS Fail

November 9, 2025

The recent worldwide Amazon Web Services failure proves that AWS is a single point of failure for the Internet. At least one analyst says Amazon knows the source of the problem but isn’t fixing it because it’s too expensive. Another, a friend of mine in the computer security racket, says simply that Amazon was lying about the cause. “Yeah, a total shitshow. Blaming a bad DNS was bogus.”

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