Keeping Your Tech Running Offline When the Cloud Fails
Learn practical cloud outage solutions to keep your tech offline-ready for an uninterrupted life.
The recent AWS outage showed how fragile our digital lives really are, with millions of users losing access to essential apps and devices.
When AWS went offline on October 20, 2025, millions of users lost access to the apps and devices they rely on every day.
The outage was caused by a network health monitor fault in US-EAST-1, triggering DNS resolution issues in DynamoDB and cascading failures to EC2, Lambda, and SQS.
This resulted in over 2,500 services being knocked out worldwide, disrupting daily life for many.
- Banking apps
- Smart locks
Author's summary: Stay connected with cloud outage solutions.
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