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Anatomy of an Outage: Our AWS AutoScaling Group “Helping” Hand Pushed us off the Cliff

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An AWS us-east-1 outage exposed how automation can backfire. Learn why autoscaling failed, how pinning ASGs saved uptime, and what to do in future outages.
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Anatomy of an Outage: Our AWS AutoScaling Group “Helping” Hand Pushed us off the Cliff

An AWS us-east-1 outage exposed how automation can backfire. Learn why autoscaling failed, how pinning ASGs saved uptime, and what to do in future outages.

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DevOps.com broke the news in on Thursday, October 30, 2025.
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