TL;DR

AWS finally dropped its long-awaited root cause analysis 10 days after the massive October 19, 2025 outage that knocked DNS, EC2 and Network Load Balancers offline for over a day. The 20-minute deep dive covers everything from Dynamo’s DNS meltdown to error codes spamming your console.

Hussein also sprinkled in a treasure trove of learning links—from Operating Systems and Node.js internals to networking, databases, NGINX and Python courses—plus his Medium, YouTube membership, podcast and affiliate goodies for anyone looking to level up backend skills.

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