When Centralized Systems Fail: Why Your Streaming Platform Needs a Plan B
On October 19-20, 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced a cascading outage in US-EAST-1 that began at 11:48 PM PDT on October 19. What started as a DNS resolution failure in DynamoDB rippled across EC2, Lambda, Network Load Balancer, and dozens of dependent services. The incident lasted over 14 hours, with full recovery completed at 2:20 […]