Tue, 21 Oct 2025

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 Amazon outage 'resolved' as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted

Platform outage checker Downdetector said the issues have impacted more than 1,000 different businesses.

* Over 1,000 apps and websites were impacted by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, including Snapchat, Lloyds Bank, and Halifax.
* The outage was caused by problems at the heart of AWS' operations in the US, specifically with DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1.
* More than 11 million user reports of problems were recorded globally during the outage on Monday.
* Amazon fixed the underlying problem around 2300 BST, but not before throttling parts of its own system to address it.
* Experts warn that the outage highlights the risks of relying on a single dominant provider for cloud computing services.
* Prof Alan Woodward said: "What this episode has highlighted is just how interdependent our infrastructure is."
* Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, said: "Everyone has a bad day, today Amazon had a bad day."
* Cori Crider, head of the Future of Technology Institute, said: "An essential part of the economy has fallen to pieces."
* Computer science expert Ken Birman says some responsibility rests with companies that use AWS for not building protection systems into their applications.
* The outage could lead to court cases, such as Delta Airlines' ongoing dispute with CrowdStrike over losses from a previous outage.
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