After The AWS Outage: 7 Key Lessons Learned
Techstrong.IT, Monday, October 27th, 2025
In the aftermath of the major AWS outage, users now understand the root cause. In short: the glitch started at the DNS layer, but the collapse occurred when the downstream orchestration processes tried to catch up.
Understandably, some users expressed frustration with DNS itself. However, DNS itself does not need to be 'fixed,' said Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group. Yet he added: 'I do think there's a need to figure out a system to make DNS a little bit more resilient to situations like this.'
Given that the issue is not as simple as eliminating DNS from the stack-not likely in the foreseeable future at any rate-the larger question is: What are the lessons learned from AWS's outage? How can enterprises better prepare?