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AWS Outage Recovery Triggers Cascading Service Failures Across Cloud Platform

Amazon Web Services’ efforts to recover from a major DynamoDB outage reportedly triggered additional service failures across its cloud platform. The cascading issues affected EC2 instance launches, Lambda functions, and network load balancers, with full recovery taking over a dozen hours after the initial resolution.

Cascading Failures During AWS Recovery

Amazon Web Services experienced significant cascading service failures during its recovery from a major outage in its US-EAST-1 region, according to reports from the cloud provider’s status page. Sources indicate that efforts to resolve the initial DynamoDB DNS issue inadvertently triggered subsequent impairments across multiple critical services.