# Durable under pressure: How developers kept running during the AWS us-east-1 outage

DevFeed: [Durable under pressure: How developers kept running during the AWS us-east-1 outage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/durable-under-pressure-how-developers-kept-running-during-the-aws-us-east-1-outage-35851.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/how-devs-kept-running-during-the-aws-us-east-1-oct-20-2025>)

Author: Luke Knepper

Published: 2025-11-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Disaster Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disaster-recovery.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [DynamoDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dynamodb.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [dynamodb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dynamodb.md>), [high-availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/high-availability.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [temporal-concepts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-concepts.md>), [us](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/us.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines the October 20, 2025 AWS us-east-1 outage and explains how multi-region high availability and disaster recovery strategies helped some applications continue running. It describes Temporal Cloud's replication and failover features and FireHydrant's preparation and testing.

## Source excerpt

The AWS us-east-1 outage affected many, but some devs were able to stay afloat. Find out how.