Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage Monday morning that began around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, affecting thousands of websites and applications for over two hours, before recovery efforts showed significant progress some time after 6 a.m.

BBC News

The New York Times

ZeroHedge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage Monday morning that began around 3 a.m. Eastern Time, affecting thousands of websites and applications for over two hours, before recovery efforts showed significant progress some time after 6 a.m.

The disruption affected major services, including Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase, Venmo, Lloyds Bank and government websites, with over 6.5 million user reports globally affecting more than 1,000 companies according to outage tracking services.

The Wall Street Journal

The disruption affected major services, including Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase, Venmo, Lloyds Bank and government websites, with over 6.5 million user reports globally affecting more than 1,000 companies according to outage tracking services.

The outage originated from Amazon's US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, which houses one of the company's largest and most critical data centers that serves as a default region for many users and supports global internet infrastructure.</span

The Hill

Newsmax

The outage originated from Amazon's US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, which houses one of the company's largest and most critical data centers that serves as a default region for many users and supports global internet infrastructure.

Amazon identified the root cause as a Domain Name System resolution issue affecting its DynamoDB database service, which provides storage and computing power to over one million customers including Disney+, Zoom, Airbnb and other major platforms.</span

FOX News

Amazon identified the root cause as a Domain Name System resolution issue affecting its DynamoDB database service, which provides storage and computing power to over one million customers including Disney+, Zoom, Airbnb and other major platforms.

Experts emphasized that the incident highlighted risks of internet infrastructure dependence on few major providers, with AWScontrolling approximately 30% of the global cloud infrastructure market alongside Microsoft and Google.

Daily Mail

Experts emphasized that the incident highlighted risks of internet infrastructure dependence on few major providers, with AWScontrolling approximately 30% of the global cloud infrastructure market alongside Microsoft and Google.

The outage represented the first major internet disruption since the 2024 CrowdStrike incident, with cybersecurity experts noting no evidence of cyberattacks while emphasizing the need for companies to diversify their cloud service dependencies.</span

The outage represented the first major internet disruption since the 2024 CrowdStrike incident, with cybersecurity experts noting no evidence of cyberattacks while emphasizing the need for companies to diversify their cloud service dependencies.

AWS Outage Disrupts Thousands of Sites for Over 2 Hours

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