About this episode

This episode discusses the details of the AWS outage that occurred on October 19, 2025, including the root cause analysis and specific errors related to DNS, Dynamo, EC2, and Network Load Balancer.

On October 19 2025 AWS experienced an outage that lasted over a day, 10 days later we finally got the root cause analysis and we know exactly what caused the DNS to fail0:00 Summary 5:30 How did Dynamo lost its DNS?13:41 EC2 Errors 16:16 Network Load Balancer ErrorsRCA here https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

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