When Automation Becomes the Enemy: Lessons from AWS's October 2025 DynamoDB Outage
Last week, AWS published their post-mortem for the massive October 19-20 service disruption that brought down DynamoDB and cascaded through dozens of services in us-east-1. Having spent the weekend digesting this remarkably transparent report, I wanted to share some thoughts on what this incident teaches us about modern infrastructure operations. The Irony of Sophisticated Automation What…













