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AWS Outage, What Happened And How To Prepare With Integrated Risk Management
On Monday, October 20, a fault in Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region disrupted Domain Name System (DNS) resolution for the Amazon DynamoDB regional endpoint. The failure propagated into other AWS subsystems that rely on that endpoint and produced widespread service degradation across many internet applications. AWS reported that services stabilized by late afternoon Pacific time, with some services clearing backlogs afterward. These facts are supported by AWS service updates and independent internet measurement reports.