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What to do before the next AWS outage
Download the AWS Outage Survival Guide to:
- Price out an outage hour in your own environment (the SLA credit won't cover it)
- Steal the 5 lessons from October's US-EAST-1 event before the next outage or failure
- Run the 6-step playbook that gets you back up while everyone else refreshes the status page
The IT playbook for when US-EAST goes dark
In October 2025, a cascading failure in US-EAST-1 knocked out EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB and hundreds of other services for hours. Thousands of apps went down with them. AWS had a version of that day in 2024. And in 2023, too.
Download our AWS Outage Survival Guide and learn:
✅ What an AWS outage actually costs you
✅ The 5 lessons from high-profile AWS outages, and how to apply them
✅ The 6-step playbook companies use to stay up when AWS goes down
Practical steps you can put in place before the next incident, not during it.