TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency

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Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Summary

When a major Amazon cloud outage brings everything from smart mattresses to Snapchat grinding to a halt, what does it reveal about our digital fragility—and are we trusting the cloud a little too much?

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Richard Campbell and Doc Rock

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0:00.0	It's time for Twit this week in tech. Doc Rock is here. Richard Campbell from Windows Weekly and Dotnet Rocks.
0:05.8	We're going to talk about the Amazon outage. Wow, what a, what a mess that turned out to be.
0:12.0	We'll also talk about the TikTok deal. It's apparently going to happen on Thursday.
0:16.6	And foreign hackers breached the U.S. nuclear weapons plant. That and a whole lot more coming up next on Twitter.
0:26.5	Podcasts you love.
0:28.3	From people you trust.
0:30.8	This is Twitter.
0:45.4	This is Twit. This Week at Tech, episode 155, recorded Sunday, October 26th, 2025,
0:52.4	The Garden of Thorns. It's time for Twit this week in tech. Show we cover the week's tech news.
0:55.0	We were going to have Stacey on the show today, Stacey higginbotham but she's she's on an island in the middle of the pacific northwest and there is no
1:01.5	power and uh and so she couldn't join us but that's okay because we have two other people
1:07.3	who could be on an island there's doc rock i believe you're on an island i'm
1:12.3	absolutely on an island somewhere in the middle of the pacific doc it's great to see you
1:17.3	we used to say it in the radio station we used to say somewhere in the middle of pacific ocean
1:20.3	in a little grass shack that was you ever get island fever like do you ever freak out that you're in
1:24.5	the middle of the pacific ocean thousands of miles away from civilization?
1:28.3	No, because I'm a very weird. I'm going to say something that nobody believes, and it took me a long time to convince my family, but I am broken. I am 100% fearless.
1:38.3	The only thing I'm afraid of is rats because I grew up in the East Coast and I'm sorry because it's huge. It's sensible, sensible, because they have no fur on their tails. That's creepy. So growing up in a house with a bunch of scared people, like I just went out of my way and not to even think about things like that. So I'll probably be the idiot that dies first when the zombies come because I don't have fear muscle. Nothing scares him. With this also from
2:02.5	Utrecht in Holland. Am I saying that right, Richard Campbell? Well, this is not the state of Holland,
2:07.9	but it is the Netherlands. Wait a minute. Now I'm really confused. Oh yeah. In my youth,
2:13.3	we called it Holland, but it really is the Netherlands. Yeah, there are multiple provinces of the Netherlands, one of which is Holland.
2:21.3	Why do we call it Holland?
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