A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

Ars TechnicaCenterEN 2 min read 100% complete by Dan Goodin October 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM

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A network state propagation delay triggered a widespread outage affecting millions of users dependent on Amazon Web Services (AWS) US-East-1 region services. The issue impacted various AWS functions including Redshift clusters, Lambda invocations, and Fargate task launches. To address the problem, Amazon temporarily disabled DynamoDB DNS Planner and Enactor automation globally while working to fix race conditions and prevent incorrect DNS plan applications. Ookla noted that the outage highlighted the risks of regional concentration in cloud services, emphasizing the importance of multi-region designs and dependency diversity for contained failure scenarios.

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