Overview

• Amazon said the underlying DNS issue was fully mitigated by early morning ET, reporting significant signs of recovery while cautioning that some APIs and new EC2 instance launches in US‑EAST‑1 remain rate‑limited as backlogs clear.
• Outage trackers logged millions of reports across more than 500 platforms, with disruptions hitting Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon’s own services, and key UK sites including Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and HMRC.
• Knock‑on operational issues were reported in sectors such as air travel, including check‑in problems and queues at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, while Coinbase told users access was affected but funds were safe.
• AWS updates cited DNS resolution problems for the DynamoDB API as the proximate cause, with monitoring firms noting a concentration of failures in Northern Virginia, home to the US‑EAST‑1 region.
• Security experts described the incident as an IT/database failure rather than a cyberattack, and industry voices said the event underscores the risks of concentrated cloud dependence and the need for stronger redundancy.