Overview

• The interruption began early Monday in US‑EAST‑1, where AWS reported elevated error rates and latencies across multiple services before posting signs of recovery hours later.
• AWS says the underlying DNS issue that drove DynamoDB API errors has been mitigated, with residual backlogs causing slower responses and delayed launches for some EC2, Lambda, SQS and related services.
• Downdetector logged more than 4 million problem reports worldwide during the incident, underscoring the scale of the disruption across sectors.
• Outages and slowdowns affected hundreds of customer services and over 500 companies, including Amazon’s own site, Prime Video and Alexa, plus Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, Roblox, Coinbase, Robinhood, Venmo and Mercado Livre.
• Brazilian fintechs reported Pix instability while the central bank said its core systems operated normally, and analysts highlighted the systemic risks of heavy reliance on a few major cloud providers.