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.

⚠️ What Happened

  • 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.

🚨 Why This Matters to You

  • 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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  • 🌍 Health checks from multiple global locations

  • 🚨 Instant alerts through Slack, Email, Telegram, Discord, Webhook

  • 🧾 Public or private status pages to communicate during outages

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✅ Lessons Learned

🧘 TL;DR

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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