{"id":1191,"date":"2025-11-18T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:37:54","slug":"when-a-tiny-dns-misstep-stopped-the-internet-why-architects-consultants-must-think-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/technology\/tech-transformation\/when-a-tiny-dns-misstep-stopped-the-internet-why-architects-consultants-must-think-bigger.html","title":{"rendered":"When a Tiny DNS Misstep Stopped the Internet: Why Architects &amp; Consultants Must Think Bigger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the internet falters, it\u2019s rarely because of something big\u2014it\u2019s often a tiny misstep that triggers a massive ripple. On October 20, 2025, a small DNS automation glitch in AWS\u2019s US-EAST-1 region cascaded into a global outage, disrupting everything from gaming to banking. This incident wasn\u2019t just a technical hiccup; it was a wake-up call for architects, engineers, and business leaders to rethink resilience, dependency chains, and the very foundations of cloud transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in our latest POV titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IC251105-01_When-a-Tiny-DNS-Misstep-Stopped-the-Internet_WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When a Tiny DNS Misstep Stopped the Internet<\/a> to uncover what happened, why it matters, and how businesses can build stronger digital resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the internet falters, it\u2019s rarely because of something big\u2014it\u2019s often a tiny misstep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[416,417,344],"coauthors":[410],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-transformation","tag-application-portfolio-rationalization","tag-cloud-architect","tag-tech-transformation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.infosys.com\/infosys-consulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}