How did an outage in one AWS region cause global chaos?
A DNS resolution failure for DynamoDB in AWS US-EAST-1 caused cascading global outages across multiple services, affecting millions of users and many companies.
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An operational DNS issue in AWS's US-East-1 (North Virginia) region caused global service disruptions, mainly affecting DynamoDB-dependent services and numerous high-profile customers.
AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers
Widespread outages at consumer services were linked to DNS resolution problems affecting AWS DynamoDB in the US-EAST-1 region, causing increased errors and latencies.
Widespread AWS outages centered in US-East-1 are causing global disruptions across Amazon services, banks, business tools, gaming platforms, apps, and government services.