More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage

AWS’s us-east-1 faceplanted for 14 hours after a race condition in DynamoDB kicked off a DNS meltdown, taking down 140 services. EC2 buckled under a congestive collapse, overwhelmed by a backup in DropletWorkflow Manager queues. Meanwhile, NLB health checks kept firing blanks - tricked by stale network signals and adding more chaos.