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Another day, another massive outage. Seeing a pattern yet?
This morning, Amazon Web Services (AWS)‘s US-EAST-1 region went down and took hundreds of services with it—Snapchat, Venmo, Reddit, UK banks, even Ring doorbells. A DNS failure in Northern Virginia cascaded globally, proving that “multi-region” doesn’t always mean resilient when your control plane lives in “Data Center Alley in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Sound familiar? A few months ago, CrowdStrike‘s bad update crashed 8.5 million systems and cost Fortune 500 companies $5+ billion. Different technical failure, same underlying problem: we’ve built everything on a handful of critical dependencies.

If your disaster recovery plan assumes AWS regions are truly independent, or your “multi-cloud strategy” is really just AWS in three different places… what’s your actual blast radius when the control plane fails?
The math is brutal: 99.99% uptime = 52 minutes of downtime per year. You just burned through that budget before lunch.