Amazon Confirms One Fault Crashed AWS, Knocking Thousands of Services Offline

On October 19, Amazon Web Services suffered a DNS failure in its DynamoDB API, disrupting traffic through its US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia. The outage caused widespread slowdowns and exposed the internet’s dependence on AWS. Amazon later identified the problem as a software bug in its DNS management system. A timing error, known as a … Continue reading Amazon Confirms One Fault Crashed AWS, Knocking Thousands of Services Offline