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title: "#21 - Surviving AWS Outage"
date: 2021-01-04
episode: 21
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AWS had a severe incident at the end of November. Kinesis in us-east-1 went dark for quite some time, and a ripple effect caused degradation of other services like CloudWatch, ECS, and others.
As a Cloud Engineering practitioner, how do you get yourself and your organization ready for a such turn of events?

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## Notes

- [AWS postmortem](https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/)
- [Chaos Engineering as a part of AWS Well Architected Framework](https://thenewstack.io/chaos-engineering-now-part-of-aws-well-architected-framework/)
- [Chaos Tool Kit](https://chaostoolkit.org/)
- [Chaos Tool Kit interactive tutorials](https://katacoda.com/chaostoolkit)