Post by Sourav Bandyopadhyay

When the Cloud Went Dark

15 hours. 🛑

17M+ outage reports.

🧩 One DNS failure that broke the internet.


Just published: “When the Cloud Went Dark” — a visual teardown of the AWS US-EAST-1 outage that disrupted everything from Snapchat to UK tax portals.


If you build on the cloud, this isn’t optional reading. It’s your next architecture review.

🔍 Learn why multi-AZ isn’t enough

⚠️ Spot the hidden dependencies that bricked Eight Sleep, Postman, and more

⚙️ Steal resilience patterns for your next failover plan


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📉 Don’t be the last to read it.


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