Major AWS Outage Now Mitigated: Global Impact and What Happened

A large-scale disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS) earlier today caused major outages across websites and apps worldwide, affecting users from the Americas to Europe and Asia. The company later confirmed that the issue has been mitigated, restoring normal operations to most affected platforms.

Global Disruption Traced to AWS Infrastructure Failure

It started as a technical problem in AWS’s US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia and turned into a worldwide disruption. Early in the morning, AWS reported high error rates and delays across several of its services.

The issue was traced to a problem in DNS resolution for its DynamoDB service, which handles database queries for many global clients. This led to service interruptions across a long list of popular platforms, from entertainment to finance.

The outage spread fast because many online services depend on AWS infrastructure, even outside the United States. When the US-East-1 region experiences issues, it often ...