As the backbone for thousands of platforms, AWS plays a critical role in powering everything from banking apps to entertainment services. Metrics from 2024 show AWS held 37% of the global cloud market share,

According to the AWS status updates, the company reported “increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region.” The root cause was later identified as issues with DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in that region, and the incident rippling into other AWS services.

An Amazon Web Services outage caused some consumers to go without their early morning Starbucks mobile order and Wordle.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that today's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.

The massive outage that hit Amazon Web Services early Monday and took down several major sites and services was due to an

"We have narrowed down the source of the network connectivity issues that impacted AWS Services," read the latest update from the AWS status page. "The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers."

The AWS outage caused shared concern among Wordle fans, who worried about their daily streaks being disrupted.

The Blue Jays, facing off against the Seattle Mariners in a Game 7 playoff bout at Rogers Centre in Toronto, posted a statement earlier Monday about the outage and advised fans to “hold off on managing your tickets as we work through this.” A few hours later, the team said ticket management was returning to normal.