The AWS N. Virginia (us-east-1) interruption on October 19–20 did more than set off pagers: it exposed how fragile an architecture can be when the control plane depends on a central “catalog” and that catalog vanishes overnight. Amazon’s post-mortem points to a root cause that any SRE will recognize: a race condition in DynamoDB’s internal […]| System Administration
On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) — one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world — experienced a major outage that disrupted| <FrontBackGeek/>