EP 768- The Day the Cloud Fell: Lessons from the AWS Outage

21/10/2025 6 min Temporada 1 Episodio 768

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When Amazon Web Services went down, so did the digital world — from Disney+ and Reddit to airlines and even McDonald’s. In this episode of Safety FM with Jay Allen, we dig into what really happened during the three-hour AWS outage, how a single point of failure brought global systems to a halt, and what it teaches us about redundancy, resilience, and risk in your own organization.This show is brought to you by Safety FM — where we talk about the things that matter, even when the servers crash.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy