A Detailed Analysis of The Amazon Kinesis Outage on US East-1 Region

AWS US east-1 experienced an outage Nov-25-2020. Amazon has updated us with summary detailing what exactly happened to amazon Kinesis that caused the outage let us discuss it 0:00 Intro 1:00 Tldr (diagram) 7:30 Detailed Analysis of What Happened 25:00 Why Cognito Went Down 31:20 Why CloudWatch Went Down 33:20 Why Lambda and AutoScaling Went Down 35:50 Why EventBridge, Elastic Kubernetes and Container Service Went Down 38:00 Why Service Status Went Down 40:00 Summary https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/

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