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Hussein Nasser: We now know why the DNS failed

AWS DNS Outage TL;DR

On October 19, 2025, AWS suffered a DNS failure that knocked services offline for over a day. In the root-cause analysis published ten days later, AWS pinned the outage on a cascade of issues starting with DynamoDB losing its DNS entries, followed by errors in EC2 and hiccups in the Network Load Balancer.

You can read the full RCA here: https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/

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