Overview

• AWS reported increased error rates in its Northern Virginia region and identified a DNS problem affecting the DynamoDB API endpoint, with mitigations leading to significant recovery within hours.
• By late morning in the UK, AWS said most service operations were succeeding, though some workloads faced throttling, queued events were being cleared, and launching new EC2 instances in US‑EAST‑1 still showed elevated errors.
• Downdetector logged millions of user reports across more than 500 companies, with impacts spanning Amazon services like Prime Video, Alexa and Ring, along with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo, Coinbase and Robinhood.
• Banks and public services including Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and the UK’s HMRC reported access issues, and airport systems saw knock‑on effects such as check‑in problems reported at New York’s LaGuardia.
• Security teams and reporters saw no evidence of a cyberattack, and analysts and officials urged greater multi‑region and multi‑provider resilience as organizations prepare post‑incident reviews.