• AWS us-east-1 outage on Oct 20, 2025 tested HCP Vault Dedicated resilience. • Control plane hit 500 errors, but data plane clusters stayed 100% uptime. • HCP Vault leveraged AWS compute and networking foundations for fault tolerance. • Rapid issue resolution minimized workflow impact, showcasing robust operational procedures. • Architecture split into control and data planes enhances isolation and resilience. • Lessons learned will strengthen future platform design and transparency for cloud-native services.
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- On October 20, 2025, a significant service disruption affected AWS us-east-1, impacting numerous services across the cloud ecosystem. This event provided a real-world validation of HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Vault Dedicated’s architectural design principles. At approximately 7:00 AM UTC, the HCP Vault control plane (hosted in us-east-1 and serving both AWS and Azure data planes) experienced elevated HTTP 500 error rates and intermittent panics. Even in the midst of this AWS us-east1 disruption, HCP Vault Dedicated customer clusters maintained 100% uptime throughout the event, continuing to
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