AWS Outage Highlights Internet Vulnerabilities, Calls for Decentralization

Imagine the internet is a city, and the Domain Name System (DNS) is like a phone book.

When AWS's phone book stopped working, it couldn't connect apps like Snapchat and Signal to the internet.

This happened because of a problem inside AWS's systems.

Some people think using a new kind of internet address book, like blockchain, could make the internet more resilient and prevent these problems in the future.

These new methods would be harder to shut down.

However, this solution isn't ready yet.