Amazon Web Services’ outage was caused by a DNS errorWebsites were down for 70 minutes, a full recovery took hoursBig customers like Netflix, Spotify and Slack might’ve lost millionsAmazon Web Services (AWS) has shared more details on the recent major outage which took down many major websites and apps for nearly a day.

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?

AWS said in a status update on Monday just before 4 p.m. EDT that all of its services had "returned to normal operations" after much-used sites like Shapchat, Canva, Venmo, Coinbase, Ring doorbell cameras, Roblox and Fortnite were affected throughout the day Monday.

Service interruptions affecting popular apps like Snapchat, Venmo and more are expected to be resolved following the Amazon Web Services outage.

AWS outage from DNS, EC2 and DynamoDB issues explained as cloud infrastructure at data centers and potentially AI technology played a role as Amazon invests in AI.

Amazon.com announced that its cloud service, AWS, resumed normal operations after a significant internet outage disrupted numerous websites globally, affecting major platforms like Snapchat and Reddit.

The company said that while the issue has been resolved, some services may experience a backlog of messages while it works to process them over the next few hours.

Amazon suffered a massive AWS outage on October 20, 2025, with services returning to normal operation after 15 hours.