AWS East 1 outage wreaks havok on the interent, Bazzite is better than Windows, Fediverse Fuzzing.

Link for the DEF CON 610 Hacker Pubcrawl: https://www.meetup.com/defcon610/events/311572906

On to the news:

We can’t not talk about AWS.

https://www.techpolicy.press/amazon-cloud-outage-reveals-democratic-deficit-in-relying-on-big-tech/

Technical details:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2025/10/23/aws-outage-new-analysis-explains-what-went-wrong-and-why/

An issue with Dynamo-db caused a cascading failure

Between 11:48 p.m. on Oct. 19 and 2:40 a.m. on October 20, Amazon DynamoDB experienced “increased API error rates” in its Virginia US-East-1 Region, the main region for deploying applications.

Caused by a “latent defect” in the services DNS management.

This lead to queries for the services endpoint to return empty. And because of how DNS works, even once the issue is fixed, you’ll still have this long tail of failures as dns caches clear and refresh.

This apparently lead to high traffic on network load balancers to result in health check failures on the service. And at the same time, new ec2 instances started failing to start up. Even once they were started, they suffered from network connectivity issues.

Which then lead to MORE network load balancer issues.