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Re:More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage by 7952 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:54AM (#45759508)
I think a lot problems across different systems have a similar issue. You have a system that needs to have some autonomy (like a flying aeroplane). It has a sources of authority (say a sensor, ATC) but that sometimes is unavailable, delayed, gives wrong data. When that happens we are unwilling to fall back on more autonomy and automation. But there is limited scope for human intervention due to the scale of the problem or just technical difficulty. We reach an inflection point where the only direction left is to give up some element of human control. Accept that systems will sometimes receive bad data and need some autonomy to ignore it when it is contraindicated. And that higher level control is just another source of possible false data.

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