Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://mypepack.gophersport.com/video/?vid=ro26VFXHIfV Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The AWS Outage Explained | NA Region systemdesign aws [WUqOeaVpN8a] Health Updated on August 06, 2026 EDT — Published on August 06, 2026 EDT Ever wonder what happens when a major cloud provider goes down? 🤔 This animation breaks down the infamous October 20, 2025 AWS outage in us-east-1. We visualize the chain reaction: The Spark: A DNS race condition wipes out critical records. Cascade 1: The "Thundering Herd" of EC2 instances overwhelms DynamoDB and the Network Manager. Cascade 2: Latency triggers a Load Balancer "death loop" (thrashing). The Fix: How engineers fought the automation to restore service. Learn about the complex systems behind the cloud and what went wrong during this 14-hour event. Please refer to aws post incident summary : Subscribe for more tech explanations! #aws #cloudcomputing #outage #systemdesign #techexplained #coding #softwarearchitecture #dns #youtube #awsoutage 7lRhltiwOw7 RSJQdIb1GE6 5qi7wY9kGqp Sq2HQAuDTYD sbV9iSiqTTI HMDKTzXrXcN SPogFsrY0fZ
Ever wonder what happens when a major cloud provider goes down? 🤔 This animation breaks down the infamous October 20, 2025 AWS outage in us-east-1. We visualize the chain reaction: The Spark: A DNS race condition wipes out critical records. Cascade 1: The "Thundering Herd" of EC2 instances overwhelms DynamoDB and the Network Manager. Cascade 2: Latency triggers a Load Balancer "death loop" (thrashing). The Fix: How engineers fought the automation to restore service. Learn about the complex systems behind the cloud and what went wrong during this 14-hour event. Please refer to aws post incident summary : Subscribe for more tech explanations! #aws #cloudcomputing #outage #systemdesign #techexplained #coding #softwarearchitecture #dns #youtube #awsoutage 7lRhltiwOw7 RSJQdIb1GE6 5qi7wY9kGqp Sq2HQAuDTYD sbV9iSiqTTI HMDKTzXrXcN SPogFsrY0fZ