Overview
- The disruption began around 3:11 a.m. ET in the US‑EAST‑1 region, with AWS later reporting that the underlying DNS issue was fully mitigated and services showed significant signs of recovery.
- AWS said an error in its EC2 internal network monitoring subsystem affecting load‑balancer health checks impacted services including DynamoDB, SQS and Amazon Connect.
- Most operations are restored, but AWS is throttling some requests, rate‑limiting new EC2 instance launches in US‑EAST‑1 and working through backlogs across services.
- Downdetector logged millions of user reports as platforms such as Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Lloyds and HMRC experienced outages, with real‑world knock‑ons like airport check‑in issues at New York’s LaGuardia.
- Cybersecurity experts and company updates indicated no evidence of a cyberattack, and the incident renewed calls for greater redundancy and diversification across critical cloud‑dependent systems.