Down the Amazon

Wake Up To Money

BBC

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

AWS says it's fixed the problem that's disrupted many of the world's biggest websites. Sean Farrington's joined by the former cyber chief of the UK Government to get his take on the bigger picture. Also, Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she can save businesses £6bn per year before the end of this Parliament. As she announces measures aimed at reducing the form filling process for SMEs, we delve into what that means. And as British Wool reports its strongest sales in more than a decade, its chief executive will be telling us why.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.3	Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron.
0:10.5	Evil genius.
0:11.6	He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it.
0:15.5	That's like hiding at your own funeral.
0:17.1	Yeah, a bit great gig.
0:18.6	I'm Russell Kane.
0:19.6	Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius.
0:24.1	Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius.
0:26.4	It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?
0:29.4	It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.
0:34.9	Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.
0:38.7	Wake up to money from BBC 5 Live.
0:42.0	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money.
0:45.0	Were You Impacted?
0:46.7	Amazon and its web services department says it's fixed the underlying problem
0:51.8	that has disrupted many of the world's biggest websites,
0:55.6	most important apps, but it says there are still significant errors for some services.
1:00.8	What does it mean for the businesses that have been impacted?
1:04.0	We are reliant on these tools to help us keep cost down and keep running our businesses,
1:09.3	to be in a bit of an eye-opener.
1:11.2	Yeah, for many.
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