Global Internet Disruptions After Major AWS Outage
A widespread outage of Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure on Monday disrupted online services across multiple industries. The failure, affecting the AWS US-EAST-1 region, took down major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Robinhood, McDonald’s, Coinbase, Signal, and even Amazon’s own Ring and Alexa services.
Restoration Efforts Continue
AWS engineers began restoring functionality roughly three hours after the first reports, though users continued to experience intermittent problems. The company attributed the issue to faults in its domain name system (DNS), which translates web addresses into IP addresses.
Cybersecurity experts described the slow recovery as typical of a complex cloud infrastructure restart. “It’s similar to what happens after a large-scale power outage,” said Mike Chapple of the University of Notre Dame, noting that temporary glitches are common as systems come back online.
64 internal AWS services were affected, Amazon confirmed. The incident underlines the dependence of much of the internet on a handful of cloud providers — Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — whose outages can ripple globally. “The world now runs on the cloud,” said Patrick Burgess of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, adding that while such failures are disruptive, they are usually resolved within hours.
This is the latest in a string of AWS disruptions, following significant outages in 2023 and 2021. Amazon said it continues to work toward full resolution but has reported recovery for most affected services.
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