Disaster Recovery Is Broken And AI Won’t Fix It

Let’s start with an activity, can you find a common pattern in all of the below disasters: In October 2025, AWS suffered a prolonged outage in its US‑EAST‑1 region, impacting core services like DynamoDB, IAM, and networking layers. The blast radius extended far beyond the affected region, bringing down widely used platforms such as Snapchat, Coinbase, and Robinhood. The root cause was not a single server failure, but control‑plane fragility combined with hidden regional dependencies. [bluemantis.com], [forbes.com] Google Cloud has faced similar events.