US EditionAWS Outage—New Analysis Explains What Went Wrong And Why
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On October 20, 2025, Japan time, a large-scale service outage occurred in the Amazon Web Services North Virginia (us-east-1) region, forcing web services and applications around the world to temporarily halt. After an investigation, Amazon discovered that the outage was caused by a design flaw in the automated DNS management system of DynamoDB, an AWS database service.
Amazon AWS reportedly experienced a race condition in DynamoDB and DNS components due to an internal software error and a conflict in its automated systems. The deletion of critical network entries triggered a chain reaction. The company has since suspended the relevant automated systems and implemented corrective measures.
Analyst: Amazon Web Services Outage Exposes Limits of Cloud Self-Regulation
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2025 — The internet’s dependence on a few cloud providers became impossible to ignore this week.When Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud-computing arm, went dark for 13 hours Monday, banks, retailers, and streaming apps worldwide froze, reviving old questions about accountability in the cloud.The outage, triggered by a minor Domain Name System update, had disrupted more than 2,000 enterprises and renewed debate over whether …
More Thoughts on the AWS Outage: Are Cloud Services Too Centralised?
Is digital portal/platform systems risk essentially being concentrated too much? It’s a question worth asking after the latest AWS problems. Here’s the word. The large-scale Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage represents a moderate incident for [...] The post More Thoughts on the AWS Outage: Are Cloud Services Too Centralised? appeared first on .
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