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Amazon Web Services is showing “significant signs of recovery” after a major outage early Monday that impacted sites and services including Facebook, Snapchat, Coinbase and Amazon itself — reviving concerns about the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud giant.
The problems began shortly after midnight Pacific in Amazon’s Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) region. In an update shortly after 2 a.m., AWS blamed a DNS resolution issue with DynamoDB, meaning the internet’s phone book failed to find the correct address for a database service used by thousands of apps to store and find data.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT was among the sites impacted, The Verge reported. Check-in kiosks went down at LaGuardia Airport, with lines starting to form earlier this morning, the New York Times reported. DownDetector showed problems for financial apps like Venmo and Robinhood, gaming services such as Roblox and Fortnite, the Signal messaging app, and productivity tools including Slack and Canva.
In an update at 3:35 a.m., Amazon confirmed that the core DNS issue was “fully mitigated,” reporting that most services had recovered and were operating normally.
However, AWS said it was still working through a backlog of requests for Lambda, its serverless computing platform. It also warned that some customers would see increased error rates when trying to launch new instances in its core cloud computing service, EC2.
Update: As of 6 a.m., Amazon reported it was making progress on the remaining issues with EC2. The company said new instance launches were succeeding in some data centers, and it was applying fixes to the rest. AWS also confirmed it was successfully processing the data backlog for its EventBridge and Cloudtrail services, with new events being delivered normally.
US-EAST-1 is AWS’s oldest and largest cloud region, a popular nerve center for online services, which has made it an Achilles heel for the internet over the years. Major outages originating from this same region also caused widespread disruptions in 2017, 2021, and 2023.
The latest outage suggests that many sites have not adequately implemented the redundancy needed to quickly fall back to other regions or cloud providers in the event of AWS outages.
Update: At 8:43 a.m., Amazon said it “narrowed down the source of the network connectivity issues,” blaming the root cause of the outage on an “underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers.” It said it was throttling requests for new EC2 instances as it worked on recovery and mitigations.
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