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When One Data Center Room Got Hot: AWS US-EAST-1, Coinbase, and the DR Drill That Was Not
On May 7, 2026, cooling failed in a single hall of one US-EAST-1 data center. Coinbase, FanDuel, and CME Group went down for hours, and Coinbase publicly confirmed their backup systems did not work as expected. Here is what happened, the multi-AZ checklist that would have caught it, and the AWS Fault Injection Simulator commands to run the drill before the next thermal event.
How to Set Up AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets for Teams
Learn how to set up AWS Cost Explorer and Budgets to track cloud spending, prevent cost overruns, and keep your team informed about AWS expenses.
Correct way to attach AWS managed policies to a role?
Learn how to correctly attach AWS managed policies to an IAM role using the AWS Management Console, CLI, or Terraform.
What Does AssumeRole: Service: ec2 Do?
Understand the role of AssumeRole with Service: ec2 in AWS IAM policies and how it integrates with Terraform.
How to Retrieve a Secret in Terraform from AWS Secret Manager
Learn how to securely retrieve secrets from AWS Secret Manager using Terraform in your infrastructure as code workflows.
AWS ASG Launch Templates vs Launch Configurations
Understand the key differences between AWS Auto Scaling Group Launch Templates and Launch Configurations to make informed decisions for your infrastructure.
How to Nuke All AWS Resources in an AWS Account
Learn how to safely and efficiently delete all resources in an AWS account using tools like AWS CLI and Terraform.
The provided execution role does not have permissions to call DescribeNetworkInterfaces on EC2
Learn how to resolve the 'execution role does not have permissions to call DescribeNetworkInterfaces' error in AWS EC2.