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TWiT 1055: The Garden of Thorns - AWS Outage Exposes Our Cloud Dependency
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 02:59:11
Publish Date: 2025-10-27 04:30:00
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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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