Shielding Your Podcast Business from Internet Cloud Failures and Downtime

Episode 85 - Shielding Your Podcast Business from Internet Cloud Failures and Downtime

The recent major AWS outage occurred on Monday, October 20, 2025. The disruption started at about 07:11 GMT in AWS’s primary data center in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1), the oldest and largest facility for Amazon Web Services. The outage was triggered by a faulty update to the DynamoDB API, causing Domain Name System (DNS) resolution issues. This prevented many applications and services from accessing necessary back-end databases and APIs, leading to service failures for over 100 AWS services globally. The outage affected millions of users and many popular platforms including Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, Venmo, and others. Services were fully restored by late afternoon the same day, though some backlogs remained for hours.

Fallout from the AWS Outage:

• Numerous well-known apps and websites went offline or malfunctioned during the outage, disrupting banking transactions, airline bookings, gaming, and communication platforms worldwide.
• Businesses relying heavily on AWS cloud services suffered operational halts, highlighting the fragility of depending on a single cloud provider or region.
• The incident was one of the largest internet disruptions in recent years, raising awareness about cloud infrastructure risks and the need for fault tolerance.
• UK financial and governmental services also experienced interruptions, demonstrating how broad the impact was globally.

If you have been building your podcast editing and support business on widely accepted web based tools like Descript, Riverside and other editing tools and services, any aoutage can really impact your business, client expectations and deliveribles - it may seem "Cave Man" like to keep an off-line backup suite of tools that are not internet relient so that you can still do business.

If your end to end service stack that you offer is built on "rented land" you might be setting your business up for future interuptions - beware of any potential failure points and have a fail safe plan when things go wrong out of your control.

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