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Engineering
Post-Mortem: AWS US-EAST-1 Outage, October 20, 2025
A factual breakdown of the 15-hour AWS outage in US-EAST-1. We analyze the DNS root cause, the cascading impact on DynamoDB and other services, and the lessons for SREs.
StatusStack Team
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2 min read
Engineering
The SRE's Guide to External Service Monitoring
Your reliability is only as good as your weakest dependency. This guide covers the essential strategies for monitoring third-party services and APIs, from status page aggregation to synthetic transaction monitoring.
StatusStack Team
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4 min read
Engineering
Post-Mortem: Azure Front Door Outage, October 29, 2025
A technical analysis of the global Azure outage on October 29, 2025. We explore the configuration change root cause, the cascading impact on dependent services, and the lessons for SREs.
StatusStack Team
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3 min read
Engineering
ROI Calculator: The Hidden Cost of Vendor Downtime
Vendor outages are costing you more than you think. Use this simple framework to calculate the ROI of a vendor monitoring solution and justify the investment to your leadership.
StatusStack Team
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3 min read
Engineering
Why Your MTTR Is Stagnant (And How to Fix It)
You've optimized your pipelines and automated your rollbacks, but your Mean Time to Recovery is still flat. The bottleneck isn't your code; it's your dependencies. The culprit is your Mean Time to Detection.
StatusStack Team
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3 min read
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