Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet

An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken down 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 an hour-long stretch 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 into IP addresses so that customer apps and websites can load.

While some issues can be resolved quickly, DNS issues can sometimes take longer to resolve.

Several major apps were not working. Coinbase, Fortnite, signal And zoom As Amazon has faced long outages own servicewith him 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 is said to have at least 30% of Amazon’s total cloud market.

Amazon did not say what caused the outage.

Before that, the most recent global internet outage was in 2024, when cybersecurity giant Crowdstrike A bug update is released in its anti-malware engine, causing millions of computers around the world to crash and resulting in airport delays and mass outages. It took several days for global systems to return to normal.

Before that, in 2021 a glitch at DNS provider Akamai shut down some of the world’s biggest websites, including FedEx, Steam and the PlayStation Network, for several hours.