UPDATE: 2025/10/20 12:02 EST BY CHANDRA STEELE
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Amazon has pinned the AWS outage on an internal subsystem that monitors the health of its network load balancers. The severity of the issue remains at "degraded" and Amazon posted, "We are throttling requests for new EC2 instance launches to aid recovery and actively working on mitigations."
UPDATE: 2025/10/20 10:38 EST BY CHANDRA STEELE
Issues persisting
Amazon reported "significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region" at 7:14 a.m. PT and in an update at 7:29 am. PT, said it is seeing early signs of recovery and is continuing to investigate the root cause. Downdetector shows that some services and apps like Venmo and Robinhood are making a steady return, but others like Reddit are still experiencing significant issues.
Most people around the world have woken up to the news of Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages impacting several apps and services. As we reported earlier, the likes of Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, Wordle, Ring, Starbucks, and several other platforms experienced loss of service, not to mention multiple government-run agencies.
While some of them appear to be back online, the problem still hasn't been fully resolved for several apps, according to DownDetector's live tracker.
The AWS health status page offered an update at 3:35 a.m. PT saying "the underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now."
But are all services back up yet?
Credit: DownDetectorHowever, the DownDetector page tells a different story. As you can see in the screenshot above, some of the services were operational again, only to go down again.
An update at 6:42 a.m. PT indicates that not everything is fine just yet, with AWS stating it is "still experiencing elevated errors" despite the mitigation measures carried out earlier. Another update is expected at 7:30 a.m., so one hopes that does the trick.
Bloomberg's reporting points out that financial services like Robinhood are working now, while data from DownDetector shows that complaints regarding Amazon's services like Alexa and Ring have subsided in the meantime.
We reached out to Amazon for a comment, but were directed to the AWS health status page.
It's no secret that AWS is a dominant force in cloud computing, and any small glitch tends to have a major impact, affecting millions of apps, services, and institutions worldwide. And as TechCrunch highlights, DNS-related issues aren't always easily solved.
But with that being said, the fact that some services appear to have bounced back after being impacted tells us that this problem may not take long to be resolved.
This is not the first outage in recent memory, as we saw services like Reddit and X/Twitter nosediving this March. However, this is definitely larger in scale than anything we've seen throughout the year.
What services are currently impacted in your region? Let us know in the comments below.
