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AWS Pins Global Outage on DynamoDB DNS Race Condition, Suspends Automation Worldwide

The post-mortem describes an empty regional DNS record in US‑East‑1 that cascaded through core services, exposing how concentrated dependencies can ripple across the internet.

AWS Explains 14-Hour US‑East‑1 Outage, Cites DNS Bug in DynamoDB and Announces Fixes

AWS Outage Disrupts Major Apps Worldwide, Resolved After US-East-1 DNS Failure