Outage alert infographic: AWS cloud with DNS error icons, arrows to disrupted services like Amazon and Netflix; protective shields for monitoring and diversification, with "Build Resilience" warning banner over a global network.

Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage starting October 19, 2025, at 11:49 PM PDT in the US-EAST-1 region, causing elevated errors across services like DynamoDB and affecting Amazon.com, Netflix, and others. Millions faced disruptions in shopping, streaming, and cloud access.

Outage alert infographic: AWS cloud with DNS error icons, arrows to disrupted services like Amazon and Netflix; protective shields for monitoring and diversification, with "Build Resilience" warning banner over a global network.Outage alert infographic: AWS cloud with DNS error icons, arrows to disrupted services like Amazon and Netflix; protective shields for monitoring and diversification, with "Build Resilience" warning banner over a global network.

The root cause was DNS resolution failures, fixed by 2:24 AM PDT, with full recovery by 3:01 PM PDT after restricting EC2 launches to stabilize systems. No cyberattack was involved, but it exposed DNS vulnerabilities in cloud ecosystems.

Outage alert infographic: AWS cloud with DNS error icons, arrows to disrupted services like Amazon and Netflix; protective shields for monitoring and diversification, with "Build Resilience" warning banner over a global network.Outage alert infographic: AWS cloud with DNS error icons, arrows to disrupted services like Amazon and Netflix; protective shields for monitoring and diversification, with "Build Resilience" warning banner over a global network.

Learn from this: Diversify infrastructure, use failover mechanisms, and monitor AWS Health Dashboard for updates to build resilience against similar incidents.


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