According to the official AWS status page you’ve shared, the outage is critical.
Here’s what’s happening in clear terms:
⚠️ AWS Global Failure (N. Virginia – US-EAST-1 Region)
Severity: Disrupted
Main service affected: Amazon DynamoDB, a database system at the core of AWS.
Ripple effect: Over 37 AWS services are impacted — including EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and S3.
? What This Means
Amazon DynamoDB is one of the foundational databases powering thousands of global services.
When it fails:
Applications can’t read/write data.
APIs time out or return 500 errors.
Authentication and session handling fail.
Cloud apps like Canva, Snapchat, and Alexa begin to collapse temporarily.
? Financial Impact
Each minute of downtime for AWS-dependent companies can cost millions:
SaaS platforms (like Canva, Airtable, or Notion) lose active users and sales.
E-commerce sites (like Shopify or Amazon itself) see transaction failures.
Streaming and gaming services (like Netflix, Fortnite) lose engagement and ad revenue.
Businesses paying for AWS SLAs may later claim financial credits for downtime — but that never offsets real-time operational loss.
AWS handles about 33% of global cloud infrastructure, meaning this incident potentially affects billions of dollars in operations across the web.
? Technical Details (from the AWS report)
Engineers confirmed significant error rates and latency spikes in the DynamoDB endpoint in US-EAST-1.
Customers can’t create or update support cases through the Support API.
AWS teams are actively mitigating and diagnosing root cause, with updates every ~45 minutes.
Here’s what’s happening in clear terms:
⚠️ AWS Global Failure (N. Virginia – US-EAST-1 Region)
Severity: Disrupted
Main service affected: Amazon DynamoDB, a database system at the core of AWS.
Ripple effect: Over 37 AWS services are impacted — including EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and S3.
? What This Means
Amazon DynamoDB is one of the foundational databases powering thousands of global services.
When it fails:
Applications can’t read/write data.
APIs time out or return 500 errors.
Authentication and session handling fail.
Cloud apps like Canva, Snapchat, and Alexa begin to collapse temporarily.
? Financial Impact
Each minute of downtime for AWS-dependent companies can cost millions:
SaaS platforms (like Canva, Airtable, or Notion) lose active users and sales.
E-commerce sites (like Shopify or Amazon itself) see transaction failures.
Streaming and gaming services (like Netflix, Fortnite) lose engagement and ad revenue.
Businesses paying for AWS SLAs may later claim financial credits for downtime — but that never offsets real-time operational loss.
AWS handles about 33% of global cloud infrastructure, meaning this incident potentially affects billions of dollars in operations across the web.
? Technical Details (from the AWS report)
Engineers confirmed significant error rates and latency spikes in the DynamoDB endpoint in US-EAST-1.
Customers can’t create or update support cases through the Support API.
AWS teams are actively mitigating and diagnosing root cause, with updates every ~45 minutes.
