The Real Reason Behind Recent Cloud Failures

In this segment from "Cloud State Of Play - October 2025", the hosts discuss a significant AWS cloud failure. This deep dive explores the AWS cloud outage and also mentions that Microsoft Azure down experienced a similar issue a week later, highlighting critical aspects of cloud reliability. This discussion is essential for anyone interested in public cloud infrastructure and cloud computing.

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3 - AWS Outage - WTF Happened?

AWS Full Explanation:
https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

Cloud Native Wisdom episode (@CloudNativeFM):
   • #cloudnativewisdom014: AWS US-EAST-1 Outag...  

UK Banks Hit By Outage - but why?
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/...

The BBC was more worried about Snapchat going down than enterprise services!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c...

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The LiN Influencers, Shills and Access Media have been terrible in their reporting on this outage - have a read of these posts:

My comment on Guy Massey's LiN post about "CFO says forget it!":
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guymas...

Full Article on LiN:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/octobe...

His previous warning about Virginia Region East-1:
  / guymassey_the-internet-has-a-single-point-...  

David Linthicum is not getting away with it, either:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidl...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidl...

UPDATE: Someone in AWS did apologise for the Outage Of The Year! But not who you were expecting!

   • AWS re:Invent 2025 - DynamoDB: Resilience ...  

But still nothing new in this video - just a longer version of what happened but no explanation as to why one of the "Enactors" failed on several occasions to lock the record.

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Why didn't Netflix go down in the AWS Outage?
Very simple - Multi-Region HA, as I said in this episode!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomasz...

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Good piece from InfrOS on the outage:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/infros...

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"Resilience" will not help in this type of outage! You need High Availability - multi-region HA, come to think of it - so please STOP calling it resilience.
It's not about resilience.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anandd...

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Here is a perfectly good Multicloud Architecture, to avoid such problems as we saw with the AWS Outage, but is Multicloud really the way to go?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/igor-i...

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My sincere thanks and gratitude to David Terrar (CEO, Tech Industry Forum - TIF) for facilitating the recording of this episode and lending me the TIF virtual backdrop:

https://techindustryforum.org/

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Also thank you to Andrew McLean and Crew at Disruptive Live Studios - appreciate their kind support in recording and editing this episode for me:

https://www.disruptive.live/

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Thanks to my regular guest, Paul Bevan, for his insights and participating in this special episode of Cloud State Of Play. All opinions expressed in this video are solely of the person who gave them and do not reflect opinions/stance/policy of any other person(s)/employer(s)/organisations/entities/vendors, etc. All copyrights are of their respective owners and are used here (in various formats) purely for reference purposes and under fair use policy. E&OE.

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Intro + Outro Track:: Deadfro5h by Starfrosch (Unminus).

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