{"id":318608,"date":"2025-10-20T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:09:09","slug":"aws-outage-briefly-shutters-broad-swaths-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318608\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Outage Briefly Shutters Broad Swaths of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon Web Services<\/a>\u00a0says it has fixed the massive outage reported Monday (Oct. 20).<\/p>\n

That outage impacted millions of people and large portions of the internet around the world, with \u2014 according to various published reports \u2014\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Reddit<\/a>,\u00a0Robinhood<\/a>,\u00a0Venmo<\/a>,\u00a0Verizon<\/a>,\u00a0Lyft<\/a>,\u00a0United Airlines<\/a>,\u00a0Ring<\/a>,\u00a0Snapchat<\/a>,\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0Fortnite<\/a>,\u00a0Roblox<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0McDonald\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0app among the sites whose users encountered problems.<\/p>\n

Users began reporting problems starting around 3 a.m. eastern standard time, according to\u00a0Downdetector<\/a>. By 5:30 a.m. on the east coast, Amazon said its systems were recovering and many apps and sites had come back online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now,\u201d AWS wrote in its\u00a0update<\/a>. \u201cSome requests may be throttled while we work toward full resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the morning, the company said it was \u201cinvestigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services\u201d in a region of data centers in the eastern U.S., concentrated around Northern Virginia. AWS added its engineers were \u201cengaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company said the issues were the result of issues with the Amazon DynamoDB system, which provides database storage and computing power to websites.<\/p>\n

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As The Wall Street Journal noted in a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0on the outage, AWS, the largest cloud-computing service provider in America, supports millions of websites and platforms, which means any problems with its network can affect the wider internet, including popular mobile apps.<\/p>\n

In other AWS news, PYMNTS spoke recently with\u00a0Nilesh Dusane<\/a>, the company\u2019s global head of Institutional Payments, about the way payments have become a competitive differentiator for financial institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur customers are moving from the \u2018lift and shift\u2019 model that they used to use for cloud \u2026 to truly build cloud-native payment applications on AWS,\u201d Dusane told PYMNTS during a discussion for the September \u201cWhat\u2019s Next in Payments\u201d series,\u00a0\u201cFrom Trend to Table Stakes: Mapping the Next Payment Priorities<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This marks a potential inflection point. There was a time when banks and payment companies\u00a0adopted the \u201clift and shift\u201d approach<\/a>\u00a0to which Dusane referred to the cloud by moving existing applications away from legacy data centers and onto the cloud to harness efficiency and scalability. The last few years, however, have seen a pivot to cloud-native design.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conversation, as a result, is no longer just about time-to-market but about time-to-value,\u201d PYMNTS wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services\u00a0says it has fixed the massive outage reported Monday (Oct. 20). That outage impacted millions of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":318609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6356,5170,29801,712,50,14482,751,158,67,132,68,756],"class_list":{"0":"post-318608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-amazon-web-services","9":"tag-aws","10":"tag-ecommerce","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-outage","14":"tag-pymnts-news","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-whats-hot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115406658951652134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}