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>Issues started ~1:24am ET and resolved around 7:31am ET.

First engineer found a clever hack using bubble gum

>Then really kicked in at a much larger scale at 10:32am ET.

Bubble gum dried out, and the connector lost connection again. Now, connector also fouled by the gum making a full replacement required.

Route53 is not updating new records. Console is also out.

Kinesis was the cause last Thanksgiving too iirc. It's the backbone of many services.