Amazon Web Services outage: Company identifies potential root cause; says, ‘Based on our investigation …’

A major AWS outage disrupted numerous global apps and websites, including Amazon, Snapchat, and ChatGPT. The issue stemmed from DNS resolution problems with DynamoDB in the US-EAST-1 region. Amazon applied mitigations, observing early signs of recovery, though some services experienced latency and backlogs. Full resolution was being worked towards.