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Amazon's DNS Race Condition Causes Major Cloud Outage

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Amazon's DNS Race Condition Causes Major Cloud Outage
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Amazon's DynamoDB experienced a critical DNS race condition caused by a flaw in its automated DNS management system, leading to a day-long outage that disrupted major AWS services and websites, with potential damages reaching hundreds of billions of dollars. The incident was triggered by a race condition between DNS Enactors, resulting in DNS records being deleted and causing widespread service failures across AWS's cloud infrastructure.

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