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AWS Outage May 2026: Lessons for Database Disaster Recovery
A major AWS US-EAST-1 outage in May was triggered by a data center overheating event in a single availability zone, causing multi-hour disruptions for high-profile services like Coinbase. The incident highlighted the critical difference between Multi-AZ high availability (which failed to protect latency-sensitive workloads) and true cross-region disaster recovery.
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