On December 7, 2021, AWS suffered a major outage in its US‑East‑1 region, impacting tens of thousands of services—from streaming apps to SaaS dashboards to smart home devices. The outage lasted approximately 5 hours and demonstrated a critical truth:
When your cloud provider fails, so does your application—unless you detect it externally.
AWS reported a severe disruption to several Amazon services and partner apps, including Amazon website, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Alexa, etc.
The root cause was an I/O degradation in Kinesis, which triggered a series of reliance failures across internal services.
The issue took ~5 hours to fully resolve, with recovery beginning in the US‑East‑1 area and spilling over to other regions.
Most monitoring is inside your AWS account—so if AWS itself fails, your monitoring dies with it.
Deploy pipelines, dashboards, and even incident responders didn’t know until users started complaining.
You need external alerting to truly know when your app is impacted.
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Cloud providers fail. That’s not a surprise—it’s a fact.
But you don’t need to fail with them.
External, global monitoring with proactive alerting is your buffer.
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