AWS Outage May 2026: Lessons for Database Disaster Recovery

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This post details the impact of a physical AWS data center thermal event on critical services like Coinbase, FanDuel, and CME Group, emphasizing that multi-AZ high availability is insufficient for regional outages. It reinforces the necessity of cross-region disaster recovery and positions SingleStore Smart DR as a solution that provides continuous asynchronous replication with an RPO of up to 10 minutes, no idle compute cost by default, full topology replication, and simplified failover/failback, contrasting it with traditional active-passive DR and highlighting its importance for mission-critical workloads.