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What caused the AWS outage - and why did it make the internet fall apart?
DNS is supposed to act like a map, and on Monday, AWS lost its bearings – platforms like Snapchat, Canva and HMRC were all still there but it couldn't see where they were to direct traffic to them.
Published October 21, 2025
Amazon Web Services
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Al Jazeera
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What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline? | Internet News | Al Jazeera
October 21, 2025 - The root cause appears to have been an error in the update that affected the Domain Name System (DNS), which helps apps find the correct server addresses. A DNS works like the internet’s phone book, turning website names into the numeric IP ...
Reuters
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Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after outage disrupts businesses worldwide | Reuters
October 21, 2025 - Earlier, AWS said the root cause of the outage was an underlying subsystem that monitors the health of its network load balancers used to distribute traffic across several servers.
The Economic Times
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AWS denies outage amid holiday gaming disruptions, clarifies services are operating normally as Fortnite, Rocket League and ARC Raiders report issues - The Economic Times
9 hours ago - AWS down · Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed that its systems are functioning normally, denying any outage. The cloud computing giant called reports of a service disruption inaccurate, explaining that the issues were caused by an unrelated “event” elsewhere on the internet.
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AWS Servers Down — Check Games And Websites Affected
2 days ago - While AWS did not disclose the ... Industry experts suggested the issue likely stemmed from network congestion, hardware failure, or configuration errors—common triggers for previous AWS incidents....
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Why Are AWS Servers Down? Check All Games And Websites Affected - SSBCrack News
2 days ago - Research suggests the outage stems from network connectivity issues, potentially involving DNS resolution failures similar to previous incidents, though AWS has not confirmed the exact cause for this event.
Reddit
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AWS being down is concerning because one of their USPs is high availability and disaster recovery : r/aws
October 20, 2025 - You only think about this when something goes wrong, which creates a survivor bias in your mind about how this is 'always happening'. Go look up the uptimes of AWS - it's well above 99%. I guarentee you that the alternative - self-hosting - would result in a far higher downtime, with added security issues, maintainance, cost, etc.
NBC News
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Major AWS outage takes down web services like Snapchat and Ring
The problem stemmed from an error with Amazon's EC2 internal network, which affected DynamoDB, SQS, Amazon Connect and AWS services, the company said. "The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health ...
Published October 21, 2025
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r/aws on Reddit: Non-Tech Here, Curious on AWS Outage Affecting Multiple Sites All Day
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Hi All,
As title suggests, I just popped in as a non-technical non-user aside from knowing that Flickr is down and has been all day long now, and apparently many other large sites, Reddit included.
Anyone here know the real deal and what's what and can explain it to me like I'm 5?
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When a website has to handle people (users) going to the website and making use of the services on it that requires computers actually processing those decisions and actions by the users. In the past businesses would do this themselves by having dedicated computers (servers) handle that processing. They would have these computers on-premises and have their own IT handle expansion and maintenance of those servers. Nowadays most of the businesses and websites on the internet no longer have their own computers because of the time and investment needed to manage it and just rent the usage of computers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or whatever hosting they choose to use. AWS normally has a 99.999% availability meaning that it normally has like a 5 minute total downtime for the entire year and for the most part they're very consistent about maintaining that availability. When it goes down that means the businesses that rent the usage from Amazon don't have any way to actually process incoming requests to their website and don't have a backup in place (because this usually does not happen) meaning that the websites go down. Huge amounts of the internet including the sites you mentioned use Amazon to host their sites and so when it goes down they also do.
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In Flickr terms, imagine AWS as a giant version of Flickr. Not just for photos, but for everything. Apps, websites, and data. Companies use AWS to store their files and run their services, just like you upload photos to Flickr. AWS is built with a lot of backups and redundancies. It keeps copies of things in multiple “regions” which is just different datacenters across the world. Normally, if one has a problem, another can pick up the slack. But sometimes, very rarely, a major issue hits an entire region. When that happens, every app or service that depends on that specific region can go down. And because some AWS tools depend on other AWS tools (even across regions) it can trigger a domino effect. One outage cascades into others, and suddenly you got a big ol' ball of clusterfuck.
Mashable
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AWS outage update: What happened and why? | Mashable
A service disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's popular cloud hosting and data service, caused massive problems for internet users starting their workweek on Monday. Since AWS powers huge portions of the internet, the list of services and sites that suffered outages on Monday was pretty staggering. According to user-reported issues at the site Downdetector, affected services include United Airlines, AT&T, Fortnite, Disney+, HBO Max, Signal, Snapchat, McDonald's, Verizon, Venmo, and many more.
Published October 21, 2025
CNN
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AWS global outage, Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox and Fortnite down | CNN Business
Jardin said “these issues can happen when systems become overloaded or a key part of the network goes down; and because so many websites and apps rely on AWS, the impact spreads quickly.” · Although AWS and its competitors are generally robust, the internet is a complex web of overlapping services that are only as reliable as their weakest code. The root cause of Monday’s outage remains unknown, but a service that converts friendly web names into IP addresses was unable to communicate with thousands of companies’ massive databases hosted by Amazon.
Published October 21, 2025
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Amazon web services return to 'normal operations' after mass outage, tech giant says - BBC News
October 21, 2025 - Kadri Brogi, a technical support manager who also teaches at universities in New York and New Jersey, was hit by the AWS outage on several fronts. This morning, he realized he could not check the Ring doorbell camera he had installed on a second home in Albania for security purposes. And Canvas, a widely used education software that allows teachers to assign and review students' work, was down.
StatusGator
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Amazon Web Services Status. Check if Amazon Web Services is down or having an outage. | StatusGator
Problems signing in to the AWS Console. ... Issues logging in to Quicksight; slow performance; service is down.
The Financial Express
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‘Reports of outage false,’ AWS says speculation inaccurate - Technology News | The Financial Express
14 hours ago - Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday denied reports that its services had faced an outage in some areas impacting some online platforms. “No, that’s false.
Downdetector
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AWS live status. Problems and outages for Amazon Web Services | Downdetector
This chart shows a view of problem reports submitted in the past 24 hours compared to the typical volume of reports by time of day. It is common for some problems to be reported throughout the day. Downdetector only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is significantly higher than the typical volume for that time of day.
The Verge
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Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
October 20, 2025 - An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US-EAST-1 server region knocked out Amazon, Alexa, Ring cameras, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more.
Hindustan Times
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ARC Raiders, Fortnite, Rocket League - List of games affected in latest outage | Hindustan Times
1 day ago - Earlier, AWS said the root cause of the outage was an underlying subsystem that monitors the health of its network load balancers used to distribute traffic across several servers.
Reddit
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r/ExperiencedDevs on Reddit: Why was AWS outage so devastating?
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The AWS Cloud spans 120 Availability Zones within 38 Geographic Regions, with announced plans for 10 more Availability Zones and 3 more AWS Regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chile, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
I thought that for companies like Amazon, Delta, Snapchat, Google and Venmo multi region setup was standard. One of the main premises of cloud services is the resilience to outage of one region or node. And yet, once us-east-1 is down, it's all over.
Was that the fault of AWS or those who used AWS tied to one region?
Edit: from the responses I came to conclusion that I'm gonna have my own resiliency with blackjack and hookers nginx and multiple cloud providers and it probably gonna work better than AWS.
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Multi region redundancy is expensive, complicated and probably not worth it, so many companies don't do it. Combined with the fact that us east 1 is the largest and oldest region, when it goes down, a lot of things go down with it
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AWS themselves use us-east-1 to host a lot of services that help the other regions to run. So when those services break it affects the usability in other regions. The extent to which a given company was effected depends on how well they anticipated such a failure.
The Guardian
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Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline | Amazon | The Guardian
October 24, 2025 - AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications ... Amazon has revealed the cause of this week’s hours-long AWS outage, which took everything from Signal to smart beds offline, ...