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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by jamesbelchamber on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:25AM (#45641791)
It's not surprising that it's impacting other services in the region because DynamoDB is one of those things that lots of other services build on top of. It is a little bit surprising that the blast radius seems to extend beyond us-east-1, mind.

In the coming hours/days we'll find out if AWS still have significant single points of failure in that region, or if _so many companies_ are just not bothering to build in redundancy to mitigate regional outages.

I'm looking forward to the RCA!

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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by XorNot on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:35AM (#45641878)
I'm real curious how much of AWS GovCloud has continued through this actually. But even if it's fine, from a strategic perspective how much damage did we just discover you could do with a targeted disruption at the right time?
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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by Asparagirl on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:01PM (#45645432)
The US federal government is in yet another shutdown right now, so how would some sub-agency even know if there were an unplanned outage, who would report it, and who would try to fix it?
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Re:Major AWS Outage Happening by standardly on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:46PM (#45646003)
Gov't IT is mostly contractors, and IME they do 99% of the work, so... That might be your answer.
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