US-EAST-1 then brought down US-WEST-1

DJ Ware -- Computer Expert
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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.