When Latency Turns Into Distuption
On the night of October 19th, 2025, just past the eleventh hour, something strange crept through the wires of Amazon’s vast cloud.
Alexa’s voice changed. Orders failed. The web trembled.
This is the true-to-life account of the US-EAST-1 outage that rippled through the Internet — how it began with DNS resolution failures in DynamoDB, cascaded across AWS services, and even brought down its own failover in US-WEST-1.
We’ll explore how a few milliseconds of latency turned into a retry storm that nearly broke the modern cloud — and why this might be a warning for the future of centralized computing.
Content:
00:00 Act I - The Voice of Amazon Returns
01:46 Act II - The Long Night of the Cloud
04:00 Act III - The Reckoning
05:43 Act IV - Amazon Service Disruption
? Narration in the style of Washington Irving — with a touch of HAL 9000.
Alexa’s voice changed. Orders failed. The web trembled.
This is the true-to-life account of the US-EAST-1 outage that rippled through the Internet — how it began with DNS resolution failures in DynamoDB, cascaded across AWS services, and even brought down its own failover in US-WEST-1.
We’ll explore how a few milliseconds of latency turned into a retry storm that nearly broke the modern cloud — and why this might be a warning for the future of centralized computing.
Content:
00:00 Act I - The Voice of Amazon Returns
01:46 Act II - The Long Night of the Cloud
04:00 Act III - The Reckoning
05:43 Act IV - Amazon Service Disruption
? Narration in the style of Washington Irving — with a touch of HAL 9000.
DJ Ware
I would like to use this channel to give back to the community what I have learned from others. I cover a wide range of topics on computing technology from Home Server setup on a budget, Linux for general use (workstation, server and development), High P...