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AWS Says Services Largely Restored After Global Outage Linked to US‑EAST‑1 DNS Failure

AWS attributes the disruption to DNS issues around a DynamoDB API in Virginia, highlighting how a single region can ripple across critical services.

Overview

  • The interruption began around 3:11 a.m. ET on Monday and drove elevated error rates and latency across the US‑EAST‑1 region.
  • Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Canva, Perplexity, Coinbase and Amazon services such as Alexa and Prime Video experienced outages, with Downdetector logging millions of reports.
  • AWS reported no customer data loss and said most operations recovered by afternoon, though some services faced backlogs and residual errors in US‑EAST‑1.
  • Banks and payment apps in several countries, including Lloyds, Halifax, Mercado Pago and Ualá, reported difficulties processing transactions.
  • AWS said it will publish a detailed incident report after stabilization, noting earlier that a subsystem monitoring network load balancers on its internal EC2 network contributed to the failure.