An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has affected large parts of the web, including websites, banks and some government services.
Amazon said Monday morning that the outage had been “fully mitigated” and that most services were returning to normal after a long period of hours during which much of the Internet could not load.
The Internet giant blamed the outage, which began around 3 a.m. on the US East Coast, on DNS, a system that converts web addresses to IP addresses so customer apps and websites can load.
Although some errors may resolve immediately, DNS issues can sometimes take longer to resolve.
Many major apps were not working. coinbase, Fortnite, Signal And zoom Like Amazon, faced prolonged outages own servicesincluding this Ring Video Surveillance Products,
Millions of companies and organizations rely on AWS to host their websites, apps, and other critical online systems. The company has data centers around the world, and Amazon is said to have at least 30% of the total cloud market.
Amazon did not provide any reason for what caused the outage.
Previously, the most recent global internet outage was in 2024, when cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike published a bad update Due to its anti-malware engine, millions of computers crashed worldwide and resulted in delays and massive disruptions in airports. It took several days for the system to return to normal globally.
Earlier in 2021, an outage at DNS provider Akamai took down the internet for some of the world’s largest websites for several hours, including FedEx, Steam and PlayStation Network.
