# How has the Amazon webservers issue affected you today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-amazon-webservers-issue-affected-you-today/1024130 "2025-10-20T17:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 20
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That really points out how much of most commercial or governmental websites have dependencies they don’t recognize. Which dependencies have further dependencies they not only don’t recognize, but can’t recognize. It’s a very, very deep and very tangled stack of unknown unknowns. This is illustrative, even though it’s about units of software, not groups of servers: [![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png) ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png) from **[xkcd: Dependency](https://xkcd.com/2347/)** You don’t have to pull out a very large slice of the total before the whole thing (or sections of the whole thing) come tumbling down. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-amazon-webservers-issue-affected-you-today/1024130)._