Mean Time To Insight – Episode 19: The AWS Outage

In this episode of the Meantime to Insight podcast, EMA VP of Research Shamus McGillicuddy breaks down the recent AWS DNS outage that disrupted services from Snapchat to the Premier League and explores what it reveals about automation, resilience, and multi-cloud architecture.

Key insights include:
– Even the most resilient cloud infrastructures can fail when automation backfires.
– A “race condition” in AWS’s DNS management led to cascading outages across global services.
– Enterprises must rethink how they architect for resilience, spanning regions and providers to prevent single points of failure.

Tune in to hear what really happened, what AWS is doing about it, and how you can protect your organization from similar incidents