No Impact from the AWS Outage: ShortUrl.bot Runs on Azure Multi-Region Failover
Publish Date: Oct 20, 2025
On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced a widespread outage across multiple US-East-1 services. ShortUrl.bot customers remained fully online because our production stack is hosted on Microsoft Azure across ten regions—West US, East US, Brazil South, UK South, Switzerland North, South Africa North, Central India, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Japan East—so capacity remains available on every continent we serve.
During the same Oct 20 window, competing shortener platforms reported partial outages and rate-limited redirects for several hours, leaving customers with slow or unavailable links.
Built on Azure for resilience
- Independent cloud provider: Redirect APIs, link analytics, and authentication run on Azure App Service environments outside the AWS footprint.
- Ten-region footprint: West US, East US, Brazil South, UK South, Switzerland North, South Africa North, Central India, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Japan East stay active together, so traffic can fail over across continents in seconds.
- Replicated data plane: Cosmos DB with automatic failover and geo-redundant storage keep redirect state synchronized without relying on Redis.
What this means for you
Your branded links, QR codes, and API automations continue to route instantly even when other providers experience downtime. We post live telemetry on our status dashboard and notify workspace owners whenever a failover drill runs.
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