Whenever 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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

Amazon disclosed that the specific cause of the recent disruption was a timing bug in the software that manages the AWS DNS management system. Whatever the cause, the effect was clear: Any website or ...

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, ...

Amazon has introduced a new feature for its DNS service, Route 53, which is intended to guarantee companies access to critical DNS management functions even during outages in the US-East region. The ...

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 ...

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images When ...