US EditionAmazon Details Root Cause of Previous AWS Outage
The outage was caused by a latent automation bug in AWS's DNS system, affecting over 1,000 services including banks and social media, with 11 million user reports recorded.
- Amazon Web Services apologized to customers affected by a significant outage that occurred on October 16, 2025, disrupting major platforms.
- The outage was caused by errors preventing internal systems from connecting websites with the necessary IP addresses, according to Amazon.
- AWS reported that the root cause was a faulty automation that broke the internal 'address book' systems.
- Although AWS fixed the underlying issue, some users continued to report disruptions, affecting services like food ordering and banking.
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By Lisa Eadicicco and David Goldman, CNN A massive AWS outage on Monday that brought down some of the world's most popular applications and services began with a bug. The error, which occurred when two automated systems tried to update the same data simultaneously, escalated into something significantly more serious that Amazon engineers rushed to fix, the company said Thursday in a postmortem assessment. The massive cloud service outage prevent…
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