Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a wide-ranging outage in its US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, affecting dozens of major platforms, including Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and several banking and enterprise applications.
The disruption stemmed from DNS resolution failures within AWS’s internal network, causing significant downtime for hours. This event exposed the internet’s heavy dependence on a small number of cloud providers and raised questions about resilience, redundancy, and distributed infrastructure.
Companies worldwide faced operational interruptions, emphasizing the need for multi-cloud strategies to mitigate risks associated with concentrated cloud service dependencies.
