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FM-020
The DynamoDB DNS Race That Emptied US-EAST-1A DynamoDB DNS automation race emptied the US-EAST-1 regional endpoint, then cascaded into EC2 launch, NLB, Lambda, and console failures.
AWS
2025-10-19
14h 32m
SEV-1
dnsautomationdynamodb
FM-014
The Automation Bug That Took Google's Network Control Plane OfflineA bug in Google's datacenter maintenance automation descheduled the network control plane in multiple physical locations at once. BGP withdrew within minutes, and traffic flowed onto an oversubscribed fail-static path until engineers could rebuild the configuration.
Google Cloud
2019-06-02
4h 25m
SEV-1
networkingautomationbgp