AWS Outage: When The Cloud Fails...

In this special episode on the AWS outage, Stijn De Haes explains what happened during the AWS October 2025 Outage. He then zooms in on the limited effect it had on Dataminded and its product Conveyor. Finally, Stijn gives 4 tips on how to protect yourself from this kind of outage.

Resources:

• Blog post: https://hubs.li/Q03PQKrR0
• Click here to watch a video of this episode.
  
• Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_da7qdfL80rA7byzC_CmyrfJWjcCTnb

Chapters:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:33) - What happened in the AWS outage?
• (05:04) - How the outage affected Dataminded
• (08:31) - 4 mitigations to protect yourself
• (11:53) - Tabletop exercises for preparedness
• (13:51) - Summary

Data & AI: Technology Explorations is a biweekly show from Dataminded. Each episode a Dataminded engineer demos a tool or technique worth knowing about -- working code, honest takes, no hype.

Music by Aleksandr Karabanov from Pixabay

Creators and Guests

Host

Jonny Daenen

Head of Knowledge at Dataminded

Guest

Stijn De Haes

Partner at Dataminded

What is Technology Explorations in Data & AI?

Deep dives and practical demos on the technologies shaping modern data and AI development. Join the Dataminded team as we explore, unbox, and critically review the latest tools, from building AI agents and RAG systems to optimizing cloud costs and accelerating data pipelines. We cut through the hype to show you what actually works in real data engineering practice, complete with demo code!

00:00 Intro
00:33 What happened in the AWS outage?
05:04 How the outage affected Dataminded
08:31 4 mitigations to protect yourself
11:53 Tabletop exercises for preparedness
13:51 Summary