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AWS US-EAST-1 Region Outage Affects Multiple Services

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An ongoing AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region has caused widespread disruption to multiple services, including Amazon.com, Prime Video, Perplexity AI, Canva, Fortnite, and others. The outage, which began approximately 30 minutes ago, is affecting users in various regions, including the United States and Europe. AWS has acknowledged the issue and is working to mitigate it and identify the root cause. The outage is causing increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services, impacting both end-users and support operations. The outage is related to a DNS resolution issue for the DynamoDB API endpoint in the US-EAST-1 AWS region. AWS has reported full restoration of services at 5:25 AM EDT, but issues with network load balancers continue to cause widespread outages for companies utilizing the cloud platform. AWS is taking additional mitigation steps to recover the underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of network load balancers and is applying steps to mitigate throttling of new EC2 instance launches.

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  1. 20.10.2025 11:24 2 articles · 8h ago

    AWS US-EAST-1 Region Outage Affects Multiple Services

    The outage is related to a DNS resolution issue for the DynamoDB API endpoint in the US-EAST-1 AWS region. AWS has reported full restoration of services at 5:25 AM EDT, but issues with network load balancers continue to cause widespread outages for companies utilizing the cloud platform. AWS is taking additional mitigation steps to recover the underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of network load balancers and is applying steps to mitigate throttling of new EC2 instance launches. Many online services, including Canvas, continue to show outage messages.

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  2. 20.10.2025 11:24 1 articles · 8h ago

    AWS mitigates DNS issue but network load balancers cause ongoing outages

    AWS has taken additional mitigation steps to aid the recovery of the underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of network load balancers and is now seeing connectivity and API recovery for AWS services. AWS is also applying steps to mitigate throttling of new EC2 instance launches. Many online services, including Canvas, continue to show outage messages when users attempt to log in to the platform.

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