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.
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%