What Happened
At 4:11 AM Brasília time, Amazon Web Services reported increased error rates and latency across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 region.
The root cause? A DNS resolution failure affecting the Amazon DynamoDB API endpoint.
Affected Services
The outage impacted numerous high-profile platforms:
- Gaming: Steam, Epic Games, PlayStation Network, Roblox, Pokémon Go, Fortnite
- Communication: Zoom, Signal, Alexa
- Entertainment: Disney+, Reddit
- Other: McDonald's app, Perplexity
Current Status
AWS has fixed the primary issue, but full service restoration is still in progress. Some users may continue experiencing intermittent problems as systems normalize.
Source: Tom's Hardware
