On October 20, 2025, a significant outage in AWS's North Virginia region, US-EAST-1, lasting nearly 16 hours, disrupted 113 services and affected major platforms such as Zoom, DoorDash, Capital One, Coinbase, and Reddit, despite their substantial investments in backup and disaster recovery solutions. This incident highlighted the critical difference between data backup and infrastructure resilience, as backups alone do not ensure business continuity in the absence of functional infrastructure. AWS's US-EAST-1 region, a repeated source of failures over the years, underscores the vulnerability of relying on a single point of failure for a large portion of internet traffic. In response, Gartner introduced a new category in 2025 called Cloud Application Infrastructure Recovery Solutions (CAIRS), which focuses on automating the discovery, protection, and restoration of full-stack cloud applications, including infrastructure and configurations. Traditional disaster recovery solutions have been inadequate for modern cloud-native environments, where infrastructure is often undocumented and manually configured, leading to challenges in recovery during outages. The emergence of infrastructure-as-code and cloud resiliency posture management has become essential for organizations to ensure rapid redeployment and continuity. The incident serves as a wake-up call for organizations to rethink their approach to cloud resilience, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive strategy that addresses both data and infrastructure.