AWS Rolls Out Backstop to Prevent Outages in US-East-1

In October 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage which affected more than 16 million users across 60 countries, disrupting over 2,000 services. Some analysts have estimated the incident caused billions of dollars in economic damage, with its impacts being felt in areas as niche as making smart mattresses malfunction.

Amazon later attributed the incident to an issue in its US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region that was “triggered by a latent defect” in DynamoDB’s…