What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
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How to Migrate DNS Services from GoDaddy to AWS Route 53

If you host a lot of services on AWS, it can sometimes be useful to let Amazon's Route 53 handle your DNS hosting rather than letting a domain registry service handle it, because sometimes it's just ...
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Why is it always DNS that's behind big Internet outages?

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel ...

What we know about Amazon's AWS outage and why it was such a big deal

Millions of apps, websites and services rely on AWS, one of the world's largest cloud computing platforms. Here's what we ...

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

W henever we see a major internet outage like this past week's multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to ...

AWS shock: Could blockchain technology give the world an internet free of disruption?

Last week’s Amazon Web Services outage took down all sorts of apps and websites, revealing how fragile the internet is. Its ...