What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The AWS Outage is Only the Beginning
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week’s AWS outage illustrates just how fragile and vulnerable our interconnected world really is—and how far we’ve fallen from the vision of a decentralized internet.
Guest: Samanth Subramanian, author of “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World.”
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| 0:00.0 | 300 sensors. |
| 0:03.0 | Over a million data points per second. |
| 0:06.0 | How does F1 update their fans with every stat in real time? |
| 0:10.0 | AWS is how. |
| 0:13.0 | From fastest laps to strategy calls, |
| 0:15.0 | AWS puts fans in the pit. |
| 0:19.0 | It's not just racing, |
| 0:22.5 | it's data-driven innovation at 200 miles per hour. |
| 0:25.4 | AWS is how leading businesses |
| 0:27.1 | power next level innovation. |
| 0:30.1 | Right, that's it. Come on. |
| 0:31.2 | Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. |
| 0:32.8 | Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. |
| 0:35.4 | It's going off now. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah, whatever. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's see. Where's the app? |
| 0:39.4 | Oh, here it is. |
| 0:41.0 | What? How? Oh, no. |
| 0:43.6 | You're out. Better look next time. |
| 0:45.1 | Mom! |
| 0:46.1 | It's game over for late nights on school nights. |
| 0:49.0 | EE Wi-Fi controls help you get them off |
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