The blog post covers three significant cloud outages from October and November 2025: AWS DynamoDB (Oct 19–20), Azure Front Door (Oct 29–30), and Cloudflare (Nov 18). Each incident revealed vulnerabilities in global cloud control planes and highlighted the increasing interdependence of modern infrastructure. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
A rare DNS race condition led to the AWS DynamoDB outage. A delayed DNS Enactor applied an older plan, and a subsequent cleanup process mistakenly deleted the active DNS state, removing all IP addresses for DynamoDB in us-east-1. This triggered cascading failures in EC2 and network management systems. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
The Azure Front Door outage was caused by incompatible metadata formats generated by different control-plane build versions. This led to a latent bug, asynchronous crash, and propagation of corrupted configuration to the global edge network, making rollback impossible until manual intervention. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
A change to permissions management for a ClickHouse cluster caused a query to return duplicate rows, doubling the size of a feature-configuration file. When this oversized file propagated to proxy systems, it exceeded a hard-coded feature limit, causing repeated crashes and global service interruptions. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
All three outages demonstrated that fragile control planes can feed critical data planes, causing widespread failures. Even small or valid control-plane actions can cascade into large-scale disruptions, emphasizing the need for safer, more predictable, and isolated control-plane design. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
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Control-plane resilience is crucial because failures in control-plane logic can propagate to data planes, causing outages across dependent services. Robust, isolated, and predictable control-plane design helps prevent cascading failures and ensures business continuity. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
Organizations should recognize the fragility and interdependence of cloud infrastructure, invest in robust control-plane design, and adopt tools like Bluebricks to orchestrate environments safely and efficiently. Proactive monitoring and governance are essential to prevent and mitigate outages. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
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A single control-plane failure can cascade into widespread service outages, affecting millions of users and dependent systems. The blog post details how minor misconfigurations led to major disruptions at AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/blog/three-cloud-outages-one-message-our-infrastructure-is-more-interdependent-than-ever)
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Yes, Bluebricks offers a comprehensive API for programmatic access to its control plane, enabling automation and integration into workflows. API documentation is available at https://bluebricks.co/docs/api/overview. (Source: https://bluebricks.co/docs/api/overview)
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Bluebricks is designed for Platform and DevOps teams in organizations that require standardized environment management across clouds, teams, and regions. (Source: https://bluebricks.co/docs/#managing-infrastructure-with-agents)
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Bluebricks supports multiple IaC tools, offers full lifecycle orchestration, centralized governance, real-time observability, and AI/ML enablement. Terragrunt only works with Terraform and lacks Day-2 operations; Crossplane requires rewriting infrastructure and lacks tool-agnostic workflows. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/resources/bluebricks-vs-terragrunt, https://www.bluebricks.co/resources/bluebricks-vs-crossplane)
Key features include one-click environment orchestration, Atomic Infrastructure™, AI/ML enablement, Single Pane of Glass, Blast Radius Control, developer self-service, full lifecycle orchestration, and tool-agnostic workflows. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/)
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Capabilities include one-click orchestration, Atomic Infrastructure™, Single Pane of Glass, Blast Radius Control, AI agent enablement, rapid deployment, reusable components, security and compliance, and observability. Benefits include improved efficiency, developer autonomy, ease of implementation, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and scalability. (Source: https://www.bluebricks.co/)
In the world of cloud infrastructure, "rare" is often another way of saying "eventually." This fall, we were reminded of that—three times.
Between October and November 2025, AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare each experienced major disruptions. These outages differed in cause and impact, but they shared something deeper: they revealed how fragile the global cloud control planes really are, and how tightly modern systems are coupled behind the scenes.
While the industry has grown more resilient, these incidents show that we still operate in a world where a single stale DNS plan, an incompatible metadata snapshot, or an oversized feature file can bring down services used by millions.
At Bluebricks, we study these events closely. In this blog post, we provide a short breakdown of each outage, its root cause, and how the incident unfolded.
Here’s what happened.
Amazon DynamoDB Disruption — October 19–20, 2025
Late on October 19, AWS customers in us-east-1 began seeing elevated DynamoDB error rates and connection failures. At first, it looked like just another availability event. It wasn’t.
AWS routes DynamoDB endpoints using a multi-component DNS management system made up of independent DNS Planners and redundant DNS Enactors. These components generate and push DNS configurations that keep endpoint records healthy.
A rare race condition occurred when:
The result: the endpoint lost all IP addresses, effectively removing DynamoDB from DNS.
AWS engineers restored DNS by 2:25 AM PDT, but the real story began after recovery.
DynamoDB underpins several AWS internal systems, including EC2’s DropletWorkflow Manager (DWFM), which manages leasing between EC2 control planes and physical hosts.
Because DWFM couldn’t read state from DynamoDB:
Azure Front Door Outage — October 29–30, 2025
On October 29, customers using Azure Front Door (AFD) and Azure CDN began experiencing DNS resolution issues, timeouts, and failures across critical Microsoft services — including the Azure portal and Microsoft 365.
A sequence of fully valid customer configuration changes was applied across two different control-plane build versions. Each version generated metadata in a slightly different format.
This inconsistency went unnoticed and triggered:
Engineers had to manually repair the LKG, then trigger a phased global redeployment starting at 17:40 UTC, with full recovery just after midnight on October 30.
Azure’s architecture relies on strong control-plane gating and health validation. This outage exploited a blind spot: asynchronous failures that occur after synchronous approvals.
Cloudflare Outage — November 18, 2025
On November 18, the internet had a rough morning. Cloudflare customers worldwide saw 5xx errors, service interruptions, and intermittent failures across sites and APIs.
Despite early speculation, this was not an attack — it was a control-plane configuration issue.
Cloudflare engineers rolled out an improvement to permissions management for a ClickHouse cluster used by the Bot Management pipeline.
The unintended consequence:
The fix required stopping the faulty file generation and manually inserting a known-good configuration. Most impact was resolved by 14:30 UTC.
This outage highlights a recurring pattern in cloud edge networks:
The data plane was stable — the control plane fed it poison.
Across AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare, the outages of late 2025 exposed a single unifying truth: modern cloud infrastructure is far more interdependent than many teams realize.
In each case, a small or valid control-plane action cascaded into large-scale failure, whether through a DNS race condition, incompatible metadata poisoning a global snapshot, or a small query doubling a configuration file.
While each provider’s systems failed for different reasons, the pattern was identical: fragile control planes feeding critical data planes.
As cloud architectures grow more complex, resilience depends not only on robust data planes, but on safer, more predictable, and more isolated control-plane design.
