dns failures

  1. AWS US East Outage: DNS DynamoDB Cascade and Cloud Resilience

    A sweeping failure in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20 produced multi‑hour outages that left dozens of high‑profile apps, games, bank portals and even parts of Amazon’s own retail surface intermittently unusable — a reminder that a handful of hyperscale cloud regions now hold...
  2. Understanding AWS US East 1 Outage: DNS Failures and the Cloud Fragility Exposed

    Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region triggered a multi‑hour, global outage on October 20, 2025, when DNS resolution failures for the DynamoDB API and a cascading impairment inside EC2’s internal networking and health‑monitoring subsystems left thousands of consumer and enterprise apps partially...
  3. AWS Outage Highlights Global Cloud Dependence and DNS Control Plane Risks

    A sweeping Amazon Web Services outage on Monday morning knocked large swathes of the internet offline for hours, disrupting popular apps, streaming services, financial platforms and even parts of government infrastructure while underscoring a familiar but worsening reality: a handful of...
  4. AWS Outage 2025: Cloud Dependency and Multi Region Resilience Lessons

    A massive Amazon Web Services outage on October 20, 2025 knocked hundreds of major websites and apps offline and left global internet traffic sluggish for hours, exposing the deep concentration of modern online infrastructure in a handful of cloud regions and the cascading fragility that follows...
  5. AWS US East 1 Outage 2025: DNS DynamoDB and Control Plane Fragility

    A large portion of the public internet experienced service disruptions on October 20, 2025 after a major outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region, knocking high‑profile apps such as Snapchat and Canva offline for many users and exposing brittle dependencies around DynamoDB, DNS...
  6. AWS US East 1 Outage Highlights Cloud Concentration Risks and DNS Failures

    A wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cloud region crippled dozens of high‑profile internet services for hours on Monday, knocking streaming platforms, messaging apps, gaming services and even some bank websites offline and refreshing urgent questions about how much of the...
  7. AWS US East 1 DNS Outage Disrupts Apps Across Services

    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...