Snapchat, Reddit, banks and more not working due to massive internet outage: Latest update

The scale of today’s outage raises a somewhat familiar question: Do we trust a few small companies too much? (but it’s not like that so Familiarity, which may also be an indication of why we trust them.)

Amazon’s service status page has just been updated again. The problem cannot be completely cured.

“We can confirm critical API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-East-1 region,” it reads. “We are investigating and will provide further information in 30 minutes or sooner if we have additional information.”

In simple words: things seem to be falling apart again.

That’s the question asked in a new article from our colleagues on the Voice team. Chris Stokell-Walker states that the Internet was originally intended to be a self-sustaining network, kept alive by all of its users. But nowadays it depends on a very small number of companies to keep most of the Web running.

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Some players are saying that their EA app is offline, and they are unable to play games (like recently released ones). battlefield 6) as a result.

An error message reads, “The app could not connect to EA’s servers.” “Check your Internet connection, and try again.”

EA’s status website does not show any issues with any of its platforms yet.

It is unclear whether this is related to the AWS outage or not. (If so, it would be strange if it started right now, given that everything else seems to be back to normal.) But either way it’s been a long day of not working.

The underlying problem may be resolved. But one expert says it may take some time for everything to work as expected.

“An issue affecting Amazon’s US East this morning caused significant disruption, with the underlying cause being attributed to a problem with DNS – the Internet’s ‘phone book’ that helps computers find each other,” said Graeme Bragg, a computer networking expert at the University of Southampton.

“This has impacted a lot of services hosted in different regions because Amazon hosts its own management infrastructure that relies on other services in that region. This is a significant outage because of how many companies depend on Amazon and the impact is global.”

“The underlying issue is now resolved, but it will take some time for it to propagate across the Internet. There is a backlog of requests to work on Amazon’s servers as well, so it’s likely we’ll see some disruption for the rest of the day.”

A post on Reddit’s status page said it was aware of the earlier problem but that it had been fixed. It did not say whether this was actually related to the widespread AWS outage. (It certainly appears to have started later.)

John Crowcroft FRS Freng, Marconi Professor of Communications Systems at the University of Cambridge, explains that the nature of the outage can actually make it difficult to respond to an outage.

“An interesting challenge is that the back channels that many technical people use to communicate information/technical details about the ongoing outage have also been closed due to this outage – so our usual methods of learning (e.g. via Signal or Slack) are both currently blocked due to the AWS outage,” he said.

Down Detector, the tracking website for outages, remained worryingly red throughout the day. And it’s still the same color, but it seems to have calmed down a bit.

Amazon has said it’s still working toward a full recovery, so it’s understandable that some people will continue to experience issues with some apps.

The latest update from Amazon Web Services said it believes the issue has been fixed. But it notes that some problems may occur – slow responses, and so on – while everything comes back online.

The whole thing is a bit technical but can be seen below:

“The underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS service operations are now succeeding normally,” it reads. “Some requests may be put on hold while we work toward a full resolution. Additionally, some services are continuing to work through the backlog of events, such as CloudTrail and Lambda.

“Although most operations have recovered, requests to launch new EC2 instances (or services that launch EC2 instances, such as ECS) in the US-EAST-1 region are still experiencing an increased error rate. We continue to work toward a full resolution.

“If you are still experiencing issues resolving the DynamoDB service endpoint in US-EAST-1, we recommend flushing your DNS cache. We will provide an update by or before 4:15 a.m. ET if we have additional information to share.”

Cybersecurity expert Rimesh Patel says the outage is a reminder that small problems can quickly become big ones when everyone depends on the same things.

“This major online outage underscores a harsh reality: business operations involving a critical vendor in one region can turn into global instability. What began as a service interruption has spread outward, potentially compromising key systems at the start of a business week – this is an example of how supply chain and infrastructure resiliency must be front of mind for every organization,”

“Amazon has reportedly committed full resources to restoring affected services, but in the interim the burden falls on other organizations to mobilize rapid responses, isolate impacts, and limit service degradation wherever possible.”