Your question is Root Cause Analysis in Cloud Failures. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
How do you approach root cause analysis when a cloud service fails, and what steps do you take to prevent recurrence?
Explain how you establish the incident timeline, separate symptoms from contributing factors, gather evidence, validate hypotheses, and identify the underlying root cause. Include how you communicate during and after the incident, and how you convert findings into preventive engineering work.
Keep the answer focused on cloud-hosted services, observability, incident response, and operational controls.