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AWS Outage Impacts Amazon, Snapchat, Prime Video, Canva and More – Update

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage impacting a wide range of services dependent on its infrastructure. The disruption affected various sectors, including e-commerce, streaming, social media, and financial…

LBy Lucas GallagherOct 20, 20251 min read

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage impacting a wide range of services dependent on its infrastructure. The disruption affected various sectors, including e-commerce, streaming, social media, and financial services.

The outage commenced early in the morning and disrupted several high-profile services such as Amazon's e-commerce platform, Snapchat, Prime Video, and Canva. Additionally, banks like Capital One and airlines such as Delta reported service interruptions.

At the core of the issue was a failure in AWS's DynamoDB due to a Domain Name System (DNS) malfunction. As DNS is responsible for resolving human-readable URLs into machine-level IP addresses, the failure prevented data retrieval from DynamoDB, affecting services dependent on it.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage impacting a wide range of services dependent on its infrastructure.
Lucas Gallagher · Thehackingpost

AWS engineers initiated recovery protocols, managing to restore partial service by early afternoon. The company acknowledged the incident and committed to conducting a full root-cause analysis. No external attack was suspected, with initial findings pointing towards an internal configuration error.

Efforts are ongoing to address the issue fully, and AWS has updated its status page to reflect current service availability.

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