dns failure

A sweeping Amazon Web Services outage on Monday knocked large swathes of the internet offline for hours, briefly turning everyday apps and services into a globalized experiment in digital fragility—while social media served up an immediate, merciless chorus of memes and panic. Background The...

The internet’s architecture tilted on October 20 when a regional Amazon Web Services failure turned into a global reminder: the web now runs on an exceptionally small set of cloud primitives—and when those primitives hiccup, the ripple is enormous. The Fast Company piece arguing that “the AWS...

Amazon Web Services suffered a major regional disruption centered on its US‑EAST‑1 (Northern Virginia) data‑centre cluster that produced cascading outages for DynamoDB, EC2 and a wide set of downstream services — an event that exposed the fragile hinge between DNS, managed platform primitives...

A region-wide Amazon Web Services failure early on October 20 created a ripple effect that knocked large swaths of the internet offline — from social networks like Reddit to games such as Fortnite and Roblox — and forced engineers to diagnose a DNS-related problem for the DynamoDB API in the...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems...