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TL;DR
- Users on a variety of websites and services are reporting outages and connectivity issues today.
- The problems are due to an issue with Amazon Web Services.
- Affected services include Snapchat, Grammarly, Prime Video, Signal, Asana, and Slack.
Update: October 20, 2025 (5:08 AM ET): Amazon has updated its AWS dashboard to confirm that it has identified a potential cause of the disruption:
We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.
