Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet

Core Points - An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) affected numerous websites, banks, and government services, with the company stating that the issue has been "fully mitigated" and services are returning to normal after several hours of disruption [1][2] - The outage, which began around 3 a.m. on the U.S. east coast, was attributed to DNS issues, which can sometimes take longer to resolve, affecting major applications like Coinbase, Fortnite, Signal, and Zoom, as well as Amazon's own services [2][3] - AWS is a critical infrastructure provider, hosting millions of companies and organizations globally, and holds at least 30% of the total cloud market [3] Industry Context - The most recent significant global internet outage prior to this incident occurred in 2024 due to a buggy update from cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which caused widespread disruptions and took several days to resolve [4] - A previous incident in 2021 involved a malfunction at DNS provider Akamai, leading to major websites like FedEx and PlayStation Network being offline for hours [5]