Just one hyperscaler outage can erase revenue and trust overnight-let alone two. Episode 32 analyses the October-November 2025 AWS and Azure failures—15-hour DNS crashes, thermal shutdowns, and worldwide fallout—then arms business owners with proven risk mitigation strategies to strengthen resilience now.

🔥 Chapters
00:00 Introduction & Overview
00:38 AWS and Azure Outages: What Happened
01:29 Personal Experiences & Immediate Impacts
02:00 Technical Causes: DNS and Change Management
03:03 Major Brands and Services Affected
04:10 Ripple Effects and Global Impact
05:10 Financial Impact and Insurance
06:21 True Costs: Business Losses & Customer Behavior
07:08 Critical Systems & Mitigation in Healthcare
07:48 Cloud vs. On-Premise: Is There a Solution?
08:34 Multi-Region, Multi-Cloud, and Cost Calculations
09:47 Market Share: The Three Major Hyperscalers
10:36 What Should Businesses Do?
11:16 Solutions, Recommendations, and Chaos Drills
12:32 Service Level Agreements & Business Strategy
13:50 Outage Statistics & Trends
15:24 Final Thoughts, Takeaways & Outro

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