"Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the modern Internet. Early Monday morning, at approximately 12:11am ET, AWS suffered a major outage . This failure knocked out dozens of websites, apps, and online platforms worldwide. The disruption originated in the company's critical US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia, AWS's largest and most essential data hub. AWS first acknowledged the issue when it detected increased error rates and latency across numerous key services, including EC2, Lambda, and DynamoDB -- Amazon's cloud database technology."
"As the outage spread, AWS's service health dashboard confirmed that 28 separate AWS services were impacted, causing widespread slowdowns and timeouts across cloud operations. The effects rippled across critical sectors, knocking out access to major consumer platforms such as Snapchat, Ring, Alexa, Roblox, and Hulu, as well as financial and AI services like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Perplexity. Even Amazon.com and Prime Video experienced partial outages."
A DNS resolution problem originating in AWS's US-East-1 region triggered a major outage beginning around 12:11am ET, disrupting dozens of websites, apps, and platforms worldwide. AWS detected increased error rates and latency across core services including EC2, Lambda, and DynamoDB, and engineers identified a DNS issue affecting the DynamoDB API endpoint that cascaded through dependent systems. The AWS service health dashboard showed 28 impacted services, producing widespread slowdowns and timeouts. Major consumer, financial, and AI platforms experienced interruptions, and even Amazon.com and Prime Video saw partial outages. Amazon later stated that the outage has been resolved.
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