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cloud2030 · June 5 · 38 min

AWS Outage

In this episode, we discuss the October 2025 Amazon outage. The conversation took place during the outage, and though it’s been a few months now, the insights and discussions are still very interesting. We trace how a DynamoDB and DNS-related failure cascaded through core AWS services and had a larger blast radius than expected. We also look at whether the outage was accidental or malicious and compare it to previous large cloud outages caused by internal errors or cascading failures. Some really interesting ideas come up around redundancy, failover, local infrastructure, and how data-centered business models change priorities around accountability, compliance, and valuation. Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/0SHTGqt3cmSEDX5v8YLsK7eDyIE?utm_source=copy_url

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In this episode, we discuss the October 2025 Amazon outage. The conversation took place during the outage, and though it’s been a few months now, the insights and discussions are still very interesting. We trace how a DynamoDB and DNS-related failure cascaded through core AWS services and had a larger blast radius than expected. We also look at whether the outage was accidental or malicious and compare it to previous large cloud outages caused by internal errors or cascading failures. Some really interesting ideas come up around redundancy, failover, local infrastructure, and how data-centered business models change priorities around accountability, compliance, and valuation.

Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/0SHTGqt3cmSEDX5v8YLsK7eDyIE?utm_source=copy_url

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