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Amazon cloud services restored worldwide; outage affected several services for hours
A major technical outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted internet services worldwide. Social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming, and financial platforms were affected. The company restored service after several hours of work.
A significant technical shutdown at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which started Monday morning, disrupted internet users globally. Online social media, internet gaming, streaming services, food delivery companies, and online financial services were offline for several hours. Amazon said it had fixed the problem by evening.
The firm reported in its AWS Health Tracker that "services were back to normal" at 6 p.m. Following the around three-hour blackout, AWS recovery started, albeit full restoration took a day.
Amazon stated that the issue was caused by a glitch in the Domain Name System (DNS), which translates website addresses into IP addresses on the internet. This made it difficult to access websites and apps. According to the online outage tracker DownDetector, over 11 million complaints were filed from more than 2,500 companies. Affected services included popular services like Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Netflix, Disney+, the McDonald's app, Coinbase, Signal, and Robinhood.
