AWS down: McDonalds, Microsoft Office 365, Apple Music, Alexa, and other big businesses that Amazon outage ‘disrupted’

A significant AWS outage on Monday, October 20, disrupted services for major companies like McDonald’s, Microsoft Office 365, and Apple Music. The disruption stemmed from DNS issues affecting Amazon’s DynamoDB database, impacting over 70 AWS services and highlighting cloud infrastructure fragility. Recovery efforts began in the afternoon, with services gradually returning online.