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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new Domain Name Service (DNS) resiliency feature designed to improve reliability and reduce service disruptions in its US East region (Northern Virginia). In ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a large-scale global outage that disrupted a wide range of platforms and digital tools, including Alexa, Fortnite, and ChatGPT. The incident temporarily affected ...

Overnight, a DNS failure at AWS caused thousands of website and online services that rely on Amazon Web Services to fail, including Signal, Snapchat, Fortnite, Starbucks, Reddit, Coinbase, Ring, ...

Following the massive cloud outages at AWS and Azure, DNS was quickly identified as the scapegoat. This is too simplistic, according to Carsten Strotmann. On October 19 and 20, 2025, there was an ...

The AWS Route 53 service allows you to create a DNS firewall that you can use to prevent or allow specific DNS queries. For example, if you know that the resources within a particular VPC are only ...

If you host a lot of services on AWS, it can sometimes be useful to let Amazon's Route 53 handle your DNS hosting rather than letting a domain registry service handle it, because sometimes it's just ...

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