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flag A DNS failure at AWS on October 20, 2025, caused global outages for major platforms like Snapchat, Reddit, and Delta.

flag On October 20, 2025, a major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted numerous global platforms, including Snapchat, Reddit, Amazon’s Alexa and IMDb, Venmo, Pinterest, Roblox, and Delta, due to a DNS issue in the US-EAST-1 region. flag The problem stemmed from failures in DNS resolution for DynamoDB APIs, affecting dependent services and causing widespread outages or degraded performance. flag While AWS resolved the DNS issue, lingering problems with network load balancers and internal systems delayed full recovery, requiring individual services to reboot or apply fixes. flag The incident highlighted vulnerabilities in digital infrastructure reliant on major cloud providers, with no data breaches reported.

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