What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration on few cloud providers is changing that.

Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.
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Amazon’s Outage Root Cause, $581M Loss Potential And ‘Apology:’ 5 AWS Outage Takeaways

AWS outage caused by a DNS automated systems error may result in a $581 million loss for Amazon as the cloud and AI company make changes to prevent similar failures.

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

Amazon says a DNS error caused the AWS outage. What does that mean?

The company says the Amazon Web Services outage that disrupted online activity for a large portion of the internet on Monday was likely caused by errors related to its domain name system.
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AWS’ 15-Hour Outage: 5 Big AI, DNS, EC2 And Data Center Keys To Know

AWS outage from DNS, EC2 and DynamoDB issues explained as cloud infrastructure at data centers and potentially AI technology played a role as Amazon invests in AI.

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug

W henever we see a major internet outage like this past week's multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to come into work and crack wise: "Bumped into a server rack with my big ass and unplugged it this morning,
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AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.
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AWS outage post-mortem fingers DNS as the culprit that took out a chunk of the internet and services for days — automation systems race and crash

The root cause was reportedly that the DNS configuration for DynamoDB (database service) was broken and published to Route53 (DNS service). In turn, parts of EC2 (virtual machine service) also went down, as its automated management services rely on DynamoDB. Amazon's Network Load Balancer also naturally depends on DNS, so it too encountered issues.

A common error appeared to cause a major AWS outage, bringing down platforms from Reddit to Snapchat

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.
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A Single Bug Caused Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Fortnite And Much More

Last week, a major AWS outage took down gaming behemoths like Fortnite and Roblox and caused wide chaos by also impacting important services and programs outside of the gaming world. The cause of the outage has now been identified, revealing that the massive outage was the result of a single software bug.
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