60-Second Summary

A global AWS outage early Monday knocked out dozens of apps and websites, exposing how deeply daily life depends on Amazon’s cloud. A faulty update to DynamoDB’s API at AWS’s Virginia data center triggered a DNS failure, cutting connections and cascading across 113 services. By 10:11 GMT, Amazon said systems were restored, though backlogs and some platform issues lingered on Downdetector. Disruptions hit banks, airlines, smart-home devices, messaging and gaming platforms from WhatsApp and Roblox to Delta and Ring. AWS said engineers acted immediately and will publish a post-event summary; no cyberattack was involved.

About this summary

This 60-second summary was prepared by the JQJO editorial team after reviewing 1 original report from Al Jazeera.