AWS says “the underlying DNS issue” is mitigated and most “operations are succeeding normally” after a huge US-EAST-1 outage; some services are still “impacted”

The cause of the AWS outage is currently unclear.

The Verge 2025-10-20 Jess Weatherbed

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Roblox Status Roblox Status on x
Filter — Widespread outage due to AWS outage — Website, Mobile App, Xbox App, Games …
@fortnitestatus @fortnitestatus on x
⚠️ An outage affecting several services on the internet is also impacting Fortnite log-ins. We're investigating this now, and will update you when we have more details.
@coinbasesupport @coinbasesupport on x
We're aware many users are currently unable to access Coinbase due to an AWS outage. Our team is working on the issue and we'll provide updates here. All funds are safe.
@aravsrinivas Aravind Srinivas on x
Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We're working on resolving it.
@mer__edith Meredith Whittaker on x
PSA: we are aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
@fortnitestatus @fortnitestatus on x
✅ The service provider outage is resolved and Fortnite is back online! Players should again be able to log-in and matchmake without issue. We'll continue to monitor this to ensure service remains stable. 🫡
@askrobinhood @askrobinhood on x
AWS (one of our third-party vendors) is experiencing an outage, which is affecting Robinhood services. We're aware of the issue and will share an update once resolved.
@coinbasesupport @coinbasesupport on x
Update: we're seeing early signs of recovery, with some users being able to access and use Coinbase services now. Our team is still working on this issue with top priority. We will continue to provide updates as the situation changes.
@dhh @dhh on x
Cloud marketing convinced a generation of programmers that the scariest thing in the world was to connect their own server to the internet. All so they could be sold and resold the same centralized dependencies at huge markups. https://www.youtube.com/... [image]
@gregisenberg Greg Isenberg on x
AWS being down for 3 hours and more than half the internet shutting off is today's reminder that every app is an AWS wrapper
@daniellockyer Daniel Lockyer on x
it's always DNS [image]
@geerlingguy Jeff Geerling on x
Ah us-east-1. The primary region for so many apps. Also to many app dev's surprise, the *only* region they ever tested without backup/failover elsewhere
@molly0xfff Molly White on x
extremely funny to see Elon trying to use the AWS outage to promote his chat product, but actually just exposing that he has no idea what e2ee is
@tszzl Roon on x
the digital world is significantly less centralized around aws from the last time there was a major outage. every big company has rushed to build their own datacenters and azure rose as a major player
@tekbog @tekbog on x
multi cloud multi az systems engineers right now [image]
@birdabo404 Sui Dev on x
🚨 BREAKING: half of the internet is down. > is there no alternative to AWS 😭 [image]
@mrshibolet @mrshibolet on x
First day at AWS, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️ [image]
@lefterisjp Lefteris Karapetsas on x
AWS is down and then the internet stops working. But the blockchain, it never goe ... wait a minute. Scratch that. This sector is a joke. Everyone preaching decentralization and censorship resistance but in reality ... it's all 100% reliant on the cloud. [image]
@askrobinhood @askrobinhood on x
Robinhood services are back online and recovering. Thanks for your patience.
@askrobinhood @askrobinhood on x
Robinhood services are impacted due to issues at AWS, one of our third party vendors. We're working to resolve this ASAP.
@sqs Quinn Slack on x
Even amazon dot com is down. I don't recall that happening in past AWS outages. This must be a big one. [image]
@photomatt Matt Mullenweg on x
Just a reminder that @WordPressVIP and @wordpressdotcom are natively real-time multidatacenter , and not on AWS, Azure, or GCP, so not impacted by this. Most services and hosts can't do that, or charge you an arm and leg to try.
@edludlow Ed Ludlow on x
Global AWS outage, DNS/DynamoDB issues, service resumed. Amazon shares +0.6% [image]
@lloydsbank Lloyds on x
We know some of our services were affected by issues with Amazon Web Services this morning. We're sorry about this. All of our services are now running as normal.
@tomwarren Tom Warren on x
the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can't see outside their house, definitely scary” just look outside your window 😅 [video]
@lloydsbank Lloyds on x
You may have seen reports of issues with Amazon Web Services affecting a number of websites and apps across the UK today. We know this is impacting some of our services right now. We're sorry about this. Please bear with us as we investigate this.
@positivfuturist Andy on x
UK Gov websites running outta US-East-1 ? [image]
@lakeaustinblvd Sam Rhea on x
You can use Cloudflare Radar to follow the impacts of the AWS outage this morning in real-time. We're observing traffic dropping by about 71% of where it normally is on a Monday morning. [image]
@cloudflareradar @cloudflareradar on x
A significant AWS outage has been declared. Cloudflare data shows a clear drop in AS14618, associated with AWS's US-East-1 region (Ashburn, Virginia) — one of AWS's largest and busiest data center regions — starting around 07:00 UTC. Traffic fell by as much as 68% at 08:00 UTC. […
@sandislonjsak Sandi Slonjšak on x
Today is my first day at AWS. I noticed a small bug in DynamoDB clustering implementation and I think I fixed it. Shipped to prod already. Going to make a coffee and will check back if everything is working.
@zerohedge @zerohedge on x
Internet Outage Sparked By “Operational Issues” At Amazon AWS Data Centers In Northern Virginia https://www.zerohedge.com/...
@scrypto_ @scrypto_ on x
Are you saying our immutable decentralized Blockchain applications run on aws east
@qianl_cs Qian Li on x
AWS seems to have a major outage in the us-east-1 region right now 😵‍💫 https://health.aws.amazon.com/ ...
@jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x
Can't log in this morning? Amazon's US-EAST-1 Region woke up with Main Character Syndrome. Result? Massive outages. Amazon says more updates by 5AM Eastern. [image]
@pierbapt Pierre-Baptiste Borges on x
AWS is down. Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Airtable, Canva, Amazon, Slack, ... Half of the internet is affected [image]
@functi0nzer0 Laurence on x
Angrily tapping my debit card against the reader trying to pay for groceries but getting bounced because it's a crypto card settling on an L2 supported entirely by Amazon datacenters The future of finance
@lukerramsden Luke Ramsden on x
When us-east-1 goes down, even AWS support goes down with it [image]
@jezcorden Jez on x
Amazon just took down half of the internet. INCLUDING MY SMART LIGHTS. THANKS AMAZON. https://www.windowscentral.com/ ...
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
𝕏 works
@calilyliu Lily Liu on x
Amazon doesn't need to launch its own chain - it already runs one. Turns out it is the real L1 for half of this industry.
@basedbeffjezos @basedbeffjezos on x
us-east-1 is down and the whole tech TL is crashing out
@hiteshdotcom Hitesh Choudhary on x
Welcome to Diwali outage of AWS. (And few more services)
@patrick_nealis Patrick Nealis on x
Can someone please go to Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers and unplug them, wait 30 seconds, then plug them back in? The entire US-EAST-1 region is down. #AWS #Outage
@uttam_singhk Uttam on x
engineers everywhere pretending to “monitor the situation” while refreshing the aws status page [image]
@praveeninpublic Praveen Kumar on x
Wow! I never knew AWS could have worldwide outage. [image]
@jreakin John R. Eakin on x
Oh so basically the backbone of... everything in the US. Awesome. Just awesome. Happy Monday to everyone not using AWS. [image]
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
I don't trust Signal anymore
@altcoinpsycho @altcoinpsycho on x
gotta love seeing 95% of crypto down because of an AWS outage very decentralized - great work lads 👍
@danielrpk Daniel Richtman on x
Major internet outage is currently happening, almost everything is down except Twitter 😭
@gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x
Half the internet seems to be down thanks to the us-aws-east-1 outage Perplexity, Amazon .com both down (just 2 services I tried to use) When aws-us-east-1 sneezes, the whole world feels it indeed
@framer @framer on x
⚠️ Due to an incident at AWS some users might not be able to access Framer, or Publish their site. Please keep an eye on https://www.framerstatus.com/
@reach_vb @reach_vb on x
us-east-1 is down i.e. all your major apps/ platforms or down too 🫠 go touch grass or something in the meantime [image]
@jezcorden Jez on x
my office lights stopped working cus of an Amazon Web Services outage. FML
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
The messages are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange “AWS dependencies” such that I can't read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head. You can also do file transfers and audio/video calls.
@dhh @dhh on x
We've undermined, if not vandalized, the beauty of the internet by centralizing so much with the cloud. But it's never too late to fix that mistake.
@nonfungiblemomo @nonfungiblemomo on x
AWS down. Vercel down. Half the internet is broken. Time to touch grass. [image]
@zoealannahx Zoe Alannah on x
AWS engineers right now [image]
@heyandras Andras Bacsai on x
Every service right now: we are working on a mitigation plan. In reality: we cannot do anything, so we are touching grass until AWS fix everything.
@mer__edith Meredith Whittaker on x
Hi!✌️Personally, I'm not a fan of vibes-based trust. First VERIFY, then trust, is my motto. Which is why Signal is open source. We want everyone to be able to inspect our code, and our encryption protocol, and see for themselves the lengths we go to to protect your comms and
@iterintellectus Vittorio on x
the internet just broke [image]
@katebevan.com Kate Bevan on bluesky
I see that Teams is unaffected by the AWS outage *sigh*
@mariafarrell Maria Farrell on bluesky
But tell me again why you <have> to use AWS because you can only get security with planetary (oligopoly) scale [embedded post]
@explaintrade.com Dmitry Grozoubinski on bluesky
Roses are red, — Violets are blue, — AWS is down, — So I can't Google rhymes.
@ellipsus.com @ellipsus.com on bluesky
We're affected by the AWS outage (US-East). For the record we don't store your data in the US, but one of our third-parties relies on it so here we are... www.theverge.com/news/802486/ ...
@samfr Sam Freedman on bluesky
Apparently the issue with AWS “appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1 Region”. — Can someone translate that into English and explain how serious it is?
@drbeth Dr Beth on bluesky
Another day when the assimilation of the internet into a tiny number of hands becomes obvious. AWS (Amazon web services) goes down and takes half the internet with it!
@mattpope Dr Matt Pope on bluesky
I thought the internet emerged partially from designs to build resilience in information networks in the face of localised outage (nuclear strikes). Now we have massive servers presenting high-risk points of massive failure. #AWS
@karolinschwarz.de @karolinschwarz.de on bluesky
Good day for some digital detoxing. — www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
@tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren on bluesky
there's a major AWS outage going on right now that's taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/ ...
@evalentin25 Eddie Valentin on bluesky
This is what happens when one company has a 30-percent share of the global cloud computing market. — www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
@bsd.cafe Stefano Marinelli on bluesky
“Use the cloud”, they say. “You'll always be online”, they say. — #aws #awsdown
@pookleblinky @pookleblinky on bluesky
Have hobbies that you can still do if us-east-1 is down. — You gotta wonder if anyone has bothered correlating bottish behaviour on social media with AWS outages. — Is there a lull of weirdly aggressive bluesky replies, etc
@dhothersall Duncan Hothersall on bluesky
There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivit…
@jamesomalley.co.uk James O'Malley on bluesky
Because AWS is down, I can't turn on my heating.
@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Gergely Orosz on bluesky
Status pages everywhere show green, because Statuspage.io is ALSO down: customers cannot log in to update their status page and indicate the outage their eng teams know about!! — So a fail for Statuspage to depend on an AWS region... or DynamoDB (that seems to depend one AWS re…
@hern Alex Hern on bluesky
Today's the day I remember why I don't have a smart home
@cruickshank Michael Cruickshank on bluesky
ARPA: By creating a dense network with decentralised nodes, we can make a resilient communications system. — AWS: What if we used that same system to centralise all the nodes? [embedded post]
@moonjam.com AJ Jefferies on bluesky
AWS services down, meaning I cannot use the software (I pay for) to be able to do my job. — I'm starting to think that making everything in the modern world entirely dependant on subscription based packages that all have the exact same weak-point might be... bad!?!
@jonkuperman.com Jon Kuperman on bluesky
Always fun to find out all the apps you use that are on aws
@fj@mastodon.social Frederic Jacobs on mastodon
Today is “reminder they use AWS US-EAST-1” day. — https://health.aws.amazon.com/ ... [images]
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Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
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