Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage early Monday morning before most services were restored, the company said.
AWS, which provides cloud-computing services to companies around the world, first reported “increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” in Northern Virginia at 3:11 a.m. EDT. .
At 4:26 a.m. EDT, AWS reported “significant error rates” and said its engineers were “actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause.”
At 5:01 a.m. EDT, it said the issue appeared to be connected with Domain Name System (DNS) resolution, which maps IP addresses to hosts, of its DynamoDB database.
At 6:35 a.m. EDT, the company said the DNS issue “has been fully mitigated,” and most services have been restored.
On DownDetector, a website that tracks outages, users reported sharp increases in issues with Snapchat, Fortnite, Zoom, McDonald’s and Lyft apps, with all advisories noting the AWS outage as a potential reason.
Coinbase also said on the social platform X Monday that it was “aware” of many users being unable to access the platform due to the outage. The company added that “all funds are safe.”
Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, said on X that the app was “down for some people” due to the outage.
The Associated Press contributed.
