15 Hours of Chaos: AWS Outage Explained + DR Lessons [y2CqfcqwevT]
For over 15 hours, AWS’s us-east-1 region faced one of its longest disruptions — impacting key services like DynamoDB, EC2, and IAM, and triggering cascading failures across other regions that depend on us-east-1–hosted global services. In this video, we unpack what went wrong, how AWS managed the crisis, and the disaster recovery (DR) strategies every architect should apply to protect workloads from region-level and cross-region dependencies. Resilient Architectures on AWS with Practical Solutions: