AWS Outage: When The Cloud Fails...

In this special episode on the AWS outage, Stijn De Haes explains what happened during the AWS October 2025 Outage. He then zooms in on the limited effect it had on Dataminded and its product Conveyor. Finally, Stijn gives 4 tips on how to protect yourself from this kind of outage.

Resources:

• Blog post: https://hubs.li/Q03PQKrR0
• Click here to watch a video of this episode.
  
• Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_da7qdfL80rA7byzC_CmyrfJWjcCTnb

Creators & Guests

• Jonny Daenen - Host
• Stijn De Haes - Guest

Chapters:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:33) - What happened in the AWS outage?
• (05:04) - How the outage affected Dataminded
• (08:31) - 4 mitigations to protect yourself
• (11:53) - Tabletop exercises for preparedness
• (13:51) - Summary

Data & AI: Technology Explorations is a biweekly show from Dataminded. Each episode a Dataminded engineer demos a tool or technique worth knowing about -- working code, honest takes, no hype.

Music by Aleksandr Karabanov from Pixabay