New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- The latest outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud ops have once again spotlighted on how much we are dependent on technology and no matter how much redundancies we have built is not unbreakable. The worst, the outage happened on a weekend.

Let's reflect on how it all panned out, gleaning through the news reports. In the early hours of October 20, 2025, somewhere deep inside AWS US-EAST-1 region, a routine update to an internal monitoring subsystem triggered a cascading failure. The system that keeps tabs on AWS's network load balancers, the invisible traffic police of the cloud, began misreporting the critical health data.

By the time engineers realised the depth of the issue, the dominoes were already falling. ...