Saw workers saying everything has been down in the fulfillment centers for an hour. I can’t login to my account. Also AWS is down so people are being logged out of games and services.
Pls b cyberattack
Finally got some news coverage after two hours:
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/amazon-outage-october-2025
https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline
The Verge is reporting GLOBAL issues.
The internet is shitting out but hexbear is fine?
Fucking finally! I was getting tired of the opposite!
AWS shit the bed, not the 386sx powered via hamster wheel that is hexbear’s server.
We operate entirely on the immortal hardworking soul of Biggs
I just put a new sound blaster in that bad boy.
Hexbear runs on a pile of servers that are also the heating system in my converted oubliette in the Pyrenees.
It’s kind of a Saddam’s Hiding Place situation but with more coaxial cables.
Editing out
I am hearing that on its deathbed AWS received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now it looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
Love when aws goes down, wish it happened more often. Though it gives us stupid work to do, it vindicates me on how stupid it is for majority of cloud computing to be on 1 company’s services.
The Verge is reporting GLOBAL issues.
I can confirm this, it’s happening in Europe as well. Even the automated crossing walk lights were down in my city.
Even the automated crossing walk lights were down in my city.
Why is it connected to the internet?
Innovation sweetie, you wouldn’t understand.
Brb gonna go run crypto miners on the stoplights before they’re reinstalled
us-east-1 continues to be the lynchpin holding all AWS regions together.
You can deploy across the globe with multiple redundant pathways and survive a meteor attack, but if some DNS is misapplied in us-east-1 everything falls apart.
This same outcome will keep happening so long as us-east-1 continues to have special treatment. We’re close to two decades of us-east-1 fucking up global services already, make it stop.
Wait, there isn’t real redundancy??
It’s mostly the early AWS services that were created before AWS had the concept of regions.
Certain services e.g. IAM (who/what can access what and how) operate out of us-east-1. If your app is hosted in eu-west-1 but needs to assume an IAM profile to authenticate with S3 to read/write data, you’re fucked until IAM is back online.
S3 has regional buckets but the control plane effectively operates out of us-east-1.
You also need to factor in us-east-1 being the default in most tutorials and libraries, and that a lot of these companies are US based so will stick with that default and not bother with multi-region tenancy because it’s difficult to justify the expense.
This is a flagrant violation of GDPR, but it’s all cool because without it there would be no internet.
I have only a vague idea of what that means.
if not … How is most of internet relying on Amazon???
We love a monopoly
I don’t think it’s accurate to call or a monopoly with only 30% market share. Azure has 20% Google has 13%
Folks, McDonald’s is affected. I repeat. The clown is down.
America has fallen
billions must be served
Served incorrect DNS
Like what would happen to the US economy if all these data centers stopped working? Its like half the US economy now. The power grid is reaching a point it cant handle it very soon and whats gonna happen when there is a big crash?
They will take down residential service way before service to data centers is ever effected.
Yeah, we will be given the ultimatum of either being able to use Gemini or keeping our refrigerators on. Most people will choose Gemini because it can give us recipes that only require hot cheetos and g-fuel.
the internet should be allowed to take a nap once in a while
On the one hand lol, lmao, but on the other hand Canvas (which is apparently AWS-dependent, love that) is also down and I’ve got homework to do
Yea Canvas is down for me too and I can’t do any of my work cause all of it is on Canvas, can’t watch lectures, can’t view PowerPoints, can’t even see my HW assignments. I got stuff do tonight and tomorrow shit sucks
Not that I was particularly keen on reading more Weber, but I need to for an assignment tomorrow, and I’d really rather not have any trouble with it
Aww… GFD. Apparently ALEKS is based off Amazon as well. I too have homework to do.
Edit: Nevermind. There it goes.
I’m glad one of us had some good fortune
Hope it comes up for you soon.
Which surprised me cause I thought they were still one of the few using Googles cloud
Depends on the implementation, I think. Ours has been up all day.
I haven’t checked to see how many regions they have or scale of each region. At this point also probably depends on the aws queue on when things come back up
This is just DNS DNSing, but everything always has to be China’s fault somehow
Love these “Did China do x?” Headlines
How will I eat my slop now?
I know AI is behind this somehow but I just cant prove it
Probably just maintenance guy unplugging the big router to plug in the vacuum cleaner.
DynamoDB in US-EAST-1 had a DNS issue
We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery. This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. Global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints such as IAM updates and DynamoDB Global tables may also be experiencing issues. During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases. We recommend customers continue to retry any failed requests. We will continue to provide updates as we have more information to share, or by 2:45 AM.
So it’s a critical global system and has been down for 8 hours, this is surely a good sign
I wouldn’t call it a sign of anything. DNS fixes take a long time to propagate and every service will have some sort of failure at some point. The lesson to be learned from this is: a. AWS goes down sometimes, and if your service is critical you need to have a backup plan, and B. Too many services rely on us-east-1 without having a fallback.
i’m just now recalling an article where jeff bezos said bashar al-assad “must go”. you can’t read it because the site it was on used aws, but i promise it’s real
