AWS Outage: When The Cloud Fails...

Data Platform
15 min

Host

Jonny DaenenJonny Daenen

Guest

Stijn De HaesStijn De Haes

In this special episode on the AWS outage, Stijn De Haes explains what happened during the AWS October 2025 Outage. He then zooms in on the limited effect it had on Dataminded and its product Conveyor. Finally, Stijn gives 4 tips on how to protect yourself from this kind of outage.

Chapters

  1. 00:00Intro
  2. 00:33What happened in the AWS outage?
  3. 05:04How the outage affected Dataminded
  4. 08:314 mitigations to protect yourself
  5. 11:53Tabletop exercises for preparedness
  6. 13:51Summary

Tags

AWS OutageIAMDatamindedRegional EndpointsDisaster RecoveryKubernetesEKSConveyorCloud ReliabilityDevOps

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Technologies

AWSKubernetesConveyor

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