A Single Point of Failure Triggered the Amazon Outage Affecting Millions

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

Amazon Reveals Cause of Major AWS Internet Outage Earlier This Week

Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.

A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees

: Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours

This Week In Security: Court Orders, GlassWorm, TARmageddon, And It Was DNS

This week, a US federal court has ruled that NSO Group is no longer allowed to use Pegasus spyware against users of WhatsApp. And for their trouble, NSO was also fined $4 million. It’s unclear how much this ruling will actually change NSO’s behavior, as it intentionally stopped short of applying to foreign governments. There may be an unexpected source of leverage the US courts can exert over NSO, with the news that American investors are acquir…

Amazon Reveals Technical Fault Behind Widescale AWS Service Outage

Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage that affected millions of customers and Amazon’s own operations on October 19 and 20, 2025. The company has now confirmed that a DNS resolution issue with regional DynamoDB service endpoints was the root cause of the disruption, which lasted approximately two hours and thirty-five minutes. What Went Wrong […] The post Amazon Reveals Technical Fault Behind Widescale AWS Service Outage appeared first …

Amazon Uncovers Root Cause Of Major AWS Outage That Brokes The Internet - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the backbone for countless websites and services, faced a severe outage last weekend that disrupted operations for millions. The incident, which unfolded in the early hours of October 20, 2025, exposed vulnerabilities in even the most robust systems and left users scrambling. The trouble began at 11:49 PM PDT on October 19, when AWS reported elevated error rates across multiple services in its critical US-EAST-1 region…