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🌍 The Internet was Broken Yesterday. The AWS outage was more than a blip. At its core, the disruption traced back to a DNS and load-balancing fault inside AWS that blocked access to key backbone services like DynamoDB and internal networking. A small fault caused a massive ripple. It’s a reminder that resilience isn’t a checkbox. It’s product design. Because when platforms fail, it’s not just downtime. It’s lost revenue, customer trust and reputation. If you work in product, data or delivery, ask yourself: - What happens if your main region goes dark? - Who owns the recovery playbook? - How often do you test it? The best teams aren’t the ones that never fail. They’re the ones who’ve planned what happens when they do. #AWS #Cloud #Resilience #DisasterRecovery #TechLeadership #ProductDelivery #CloudComputing

AWS went down. Millions of users felt it. But for many teams, the worst part wasn’t the outage itself — it was losing visibility when it mattered most. If your monitoring lives in the same cloud as your workloads, you’re flying blind the moment something fails. At Catchpoint , we give teams independent, global visibility across every layer of the Internet stack — so when outages happen, you know what’s broken, where, and how to fix it fast. #AWSOutage #DigitalExperience #SRE #Observability #Catchpoint #aws https://lnkd.in/eEJKmNTE

AWS took a surprise coffee break today, leaving parts of the internet scrambling. Before you panic-refresh your console, here’s what matters: • The issue affects AWS infrastructure, not your setup. • Global recovery is in progress, but latency may continue for a while. • Most impact is on authentication, load balancers, and S3 storage in US-East-1. Next steps: • Monitor your region’s service health. • Review if your workloads have cross-region or multi-cloud failover. • Take this as a reminder that redundancy is not a luxury. Our clients stayed online today because we design for these moments, not react to them. The cloud is someone else’s computer. Make sure someone else has a backup plan. #AWS #outage #Transpera #CloudStrategy #Innovation #CalgaryIT #Trust

Cloud infrastructure needs a coffee break too ☕️ Today, a major outage in #AWS US-EAST-1 disrupted multiple services including Docker Hub, Slack, and some others AI-powered tools. AWS Health reports the root cause as a #DNS resolution issue, affecting connectivity across many platforms. Even the most reliable clouds can struggle when a key region goes down. A good reminder: multi-region or multi-provider setups may cost more but they keep you running when things break.

🚨 AWS Outage – A Wake-Up Call for the Cloud Era Yesterday (Oct 20, 2025), AWS faced a major outage impacting apps, websites, and connected devices globally — from payments to Alexa. Even a short disruption showed how deeply we rely on cloud infrastructure. It’s a reminder that: ✅ Multi-region and multi-cloud resilience aren’t optional. ✅ Incident response and communication plans matter. ✅ “Cloud-first” must also mean “failure-ready.” AWS has restored services, but for many teams, the recovery continues. Outages like this remind us — resilience is the new reliability. #AWS #Cloud #Resilience #TechLeadership #Outage #BusinessContinuity

☁️ If It Can Happen to AWS, It Can Happen to Anyone This week’s AWS outage reminded everyone that no cloud provider is immune to disruption. Whether your environment runs on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, the same rule applies: availability is a shared responsibility. Many teams assume that moving to the cloud automatically means redundancy. It doesn’t. You have to design it into your architecture. Here are a few takeaways for Azure environments: ✅ Use Availability Zones and paired regions. Azure offers zone-redundant services for a reason. If your workloads sit in one zone, you are one incident away from downtime. ✅ Plan for regional failover. Test how long it would take to shift from East US to Central US if one region fails. Document it, automate it, and test it regularly. ✅ Design for isolation. Separate production, DR, and critical services across regions so that one outage cannot take down your entire environment. ✅ Monitor your dependencies. Even if your app stays online, a third-party service or Azure dependency in another region can still cause disruption. Cloud outages are not rare events anymore. They are reminders that resilience belongs to the architect, not the provider. #Azure #CloudComputing #Infrastructure #DisasterRecovery #Resilience #TechLeadership #BusinessContinuity #ReliabilityEngineering #CloudArchitecture

Yesterday’s AWS outage is a good reminder that reliability isn’t optional-it’s foundational. Having a multi-AZ setup might make you feel safe, but it doesn’t guarantee resilience. If your entire region goes down, can you fail over seamlessly to another one? That’s the real test of reliability-not just redundancy within a region, but recoverability across regions. For mission-critical systems, this isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s survival. Run disaster recovery tests at least once a year. Measure your RTO, RPO, and how your systems behave under real failure conditions. The time to find weaknesses is during a test, not during an outage. #aws #reliability #sre #platformengineering #cloud #resilience

Lessons from the AWS Outage 💡 Yesterday’s AWS outage reminded engineers how deeply everything online depends on a few unseen layers of infrastructure. A single failure in one AWS region led to widespread disruptions across major apps and services because systems that rely on each other started failing in a chain. Here’s what this teaches us: ✔️ Design for failure: Don’t assume the cloud will always be up. Build systems that can recover fast. ✔️ Know your dependencies: One broken link can ripple through your entire stack. ✔️ Monitor smartly: Detect issues early, not just when something breaks. ✔️ Plan for backup: Spread critical systems across regions or providers. Cloud outages will happen. What matters is how prepared we are when they do. What’s one step your team is taking to make systems more resilient? #AWS #Cloud

🚨 Just as AWS went down, taking countless apps and services offline for hours, our infrastructure at DEC Energy kept humming. The lesson? Resilience > Hype At DEC Energy, we made a bold choice early on: to self-host our infrastructure instead of relying on AWS, Azure, or other major cloud providers. While recent cloud outages took down even the biggest names for hours, our systems kept running smoothly. ✅ 2025 uptime so far: 99.991% 💡 Total downtime: just 4 minutes and 37 seconds, all during scheduled night maintenance. Sure, when you outsource your servers, you can also outsource the blame, but our goal isn’t to find a scapegoat. It’s to provide our paying customers with extremely reliable services, no excuses. Sometimes, going against the trend pays off. Proud of our tech team for making reliability our strongest feature. ⚡ #Reliability #Infrastructure #TechLeadership #DECEnergy #CloudComputing #Uptime

When AWS went down yesterday, most monitoring tools went silent.   Catchpoint’s Internet Sonar didn’t. It detected the outage at 06:55 AM UTC, a full 16 minutes before AWS updated its own status page.   That 16-minute gap matters. It’s the difference between reacting and leading, between seeing a problem firsthand or waiting to be told it exists.   If your monitoring runs on the same infrastructure that fails, you lose visibility when it matters most. Independent, external monitoring is what keeps you informed when the cloud goes dark. Read here: https://lnkd.in/eBUdt35b