Best Of 2025: Global Aws Outage Traced To DNS Resolution Issue In A Single Region
Techstrong.IT, December 11,2025
A global outage of cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted access to hundreds of thousands of websites and applications today that were dependent as many as 78 impacted services.
AWS confirmed that there were significant error rates for application programming interface (API) requests made to the DynamoDB database endpoint in its US-EAST-1 Region. The root cause appears to be related to a Domain Name Server (DNS) resolution issue involving the DynamoDB API endpoint, according to AWS.