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duration of the AWS US-EAST-1 outage (Oct 19-20, 2025) — a single-region control-plane/DNS dependency cascading estate-wide

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As of2025
SourceAWS post-event summary; InfoQ; ThousandEyes · Opening summary: event began October 19 at 11:48 PM PDT and ended October 20 at 2:20 PM PDT, a duration of 14 hours 32 minutes.
Reviewchecking…review by 2026-10-28 · standard cadence
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