New AWS outage.
The AWS outage took banking platforms, airlines, media outlets, delivery apps, and a wide range of essential websites and services offline
A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage disrupted much of the global digital infrastructure for hours, impacting banks, airlines, media outlets, delivery apps, and other key services.
AWS says the issue is now resolved, but the incident exposed how dependent the digital world is on a few major providers. Here’s what we know so far.
Why did AWS go down?
AWS hasn’t fully explained the cause of the outage, but said it was linked to a Domain Name System (DNS) issue in its heavily used US-EAST-1 region. Because this area hosts many major clients and services, the impact was widespread.
Amazon first reported partial recovery at 6:35 a.m. ET, advising companies to clear their cache. But by 10:29 a.m., new alerts showed ongoing API and connectivity problems in the same region.
AWS later traced the disruption to its EC2 network, a key part of its infrastructure, and is still investigating while services gradually recover.
Some of the companies that use AWS include:
Netflix, Apple, Facebook (Meta), Adobe, Spotify, Disney, Airbnb, General Electric (GE), Samsung, Comcast and many more.
AWS service to check status and uptime:
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