{"id":5583,"date":"2025-10-21T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:34:48","slug":"amazon-web-services-restores-operations-after-massive-global-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/amazon-web-services-restores-operations-after-massive-global-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services Restores Operations After Massive Global Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon announced that its cloud computing division, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, had fully resumed normal service on Monday afternoon after a widespread internet disruption disrupted thousands of websites and apps across the globe \u2014 from Snapchat to Reddit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although service had been restored, Amazon stated that \u201csome AWS services had a backlog of messages that they will finish processing over the next few hours.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The outage interrupted online operations for businesses and individuals worldwide, leaving many unable to perform basic digital tasks such as making payments or rescheduling flights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users continued to report difficulties accessing apps like Zoom and Venmo well into the afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts described the event as the most significant internet failure since the previous year\u2019s CrowdStrike glitch, which disabled technology systems in hospitals, airports, and banks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It marked the third time in five years that AWS\u2019s northern Virginia data hub, known as US-EAST-1, triggered a widespread breakdown. Amazon has not yet explained why that particular location remains vulnerable to recurring problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The disruption was linked to issues with the Domain Name System (DNS), which prevented applications from locating the correct AWS DynamoDB API addresses used for storing user data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS later confirmed that the root cause lay in \u201can underlying subsystem that monitors the health of its network load balancers,\u201d affecting the \u201cEC2 internal network.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By around 3 p.m. PT (2200 GMT), Amazon reported that \u201call AWS services returned to normal operations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cornell University professor Ken Birman said that developers need to implement stronger resilience measures to prevent similar failures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen people cut costs and cut corners to try to get an application up, and then forget that they skipped that last step and didn&#8217;t really protect against an outage, those companies are the ones who really ought to be scrutinized later,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read next:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/google-warns-of-major-cyberattack-affecting-oracle-clients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Warns of Major Cyberattack Affecting Oracle Clients<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>A Reminder of the Fragile Nature of Global Cloud Systems<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS, the world\u2019s largest cloud provider, supports governments, businesses, and individuals by hosting data storage and digital infrastructure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outages at its US-EAST-1 data center\u2014also hit in 2020 and 2021\u2014can ripple across the internet, disrupting financial services, airlines, gaming, and communication apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis outage once again highlights the dependency we have on relatively fragile infrastructures,\u201d said Jake Moore of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/comptia\/cybersecurity-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cybersecurity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> firm ESET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the UK, services from Lloyd Bank, Bank of Scotland, Vodafone, BT, and HMRC were all affected. Ookla reported over four million incident reports tied to the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor major businesses, hours of cloud downtime translate to millions in lost productivity and revenue,\u201d said Ryan Griffin of McGill and Partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apps like Reddit, Roblox, Snapchat, and Duolingo were among those impacted, alongside Coinbase, Robinhood, and Amazon\u2019s own Alexa and Prime Video. Despite the disruption, Amazon shares closed up 1.6% at $216.48.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read next: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/micron-to-halt-server-chip-sales-to-chinese-data-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Micron to Halt Server Chip Sales to Chinese Data Centers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon announced that its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), had fully resumed normal service on Monday afternoon after a widespread internet disruption disrupted thousands of websites and apps across the globe \u2014 from Snapchat to Reddit. 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