We now know why the DNS failed

Hussein Nasser October 31, 2025
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On October 19 2025 AWS experienced an outage that lasted over a day, 10 days later we finally got the root cause analysis and we know exactly what caused the DNS to fail 0:00 Summary 5:30 How did Dynamo lost its DNS? 13:41 EC2 Errors 16:16 Network Load Balancer Errors RCA here https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course https://oscourse.win NodeJS Internals and Architecture https://node.win Backend Troubleshooting Course https://performance.husseinnasser.com Fundamentals of Backend Engineering https://backend.win Fundamentals of Networking for Effective Backends udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://network.husseinnasser.com Fundamentals of Database Engineering udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://database.husseinnasser.com Follow me on Medium https://medium.com/@hnasr/membership Introduction to NGINX (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://nginx.husseinnasser.com Python on the Backend (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://python.husseinnasser.com Become a Member on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg/join Buy me a coffee if you liked this https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr Arabic Software Engineering Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWZsjdoRvZ0T9QWZOD6UpA 🔥 Members Only Content https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMO_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg 🏭 Backend Engineering Videos in Order https://backend.husseinnasser.com 💾 Database Engineering Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXjD0HOzN7P2tgzu7scWpl2 🎙️Listen to the Backend Engineering Podcast https://husseinnasser.com/podcast Gears and tools used on the Channel (affiliates) 🖼️ Slides and Thumbnail Design Canva https://partner.canva.com/c/2766475/647168/10068 Stay Awesome, Hussein

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