Massive AWS outage takes down dozens of services, including Alexa, Reddit, and Fortnite

What just happened? A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has taken down major online services across many parts of the world, including Amazon, Alexa, Ring, Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, ChatGPT, and Epic Games Store. The tech giant says that many of the services have now recovered, though some users continue to experience problems.

The issues first started appearing around 12:11 AM PDT, when reports of increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region began flooding in, according to the AWS status checker.

Amazon later confirmed that the problem appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. The company said global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints, such as IAM updates and DynamoDB Global tables, may also be experiencing issues, adding that it was working on speeding up recovery.

A huge number of apps, services, and tools ...