#Site Reliability — Kunal Ganglani

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A Single Automated Process Broke Dozens of Major Services. Inside the AWS us-east-1 Outage.

On December 7, 2021, an automated scaling activity inside AWS overwhelmed their own internal network, knocked out their monitoring, and cascaded across dozens of services. Here's what actually happened.

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