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At a high level, the issue stemmed from two programs competing to write the same DNS entry – essentially a record in the internet’s phonebook – at the same time, which resulted in an empty entry. That threw multiple AWS services into disarray.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/tech/aws-outage-cause

One DNS entry wrong and the house of cards falls.

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