# How has the Amazon webservers issue affected you today?

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**Created:** [October 20, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-amazon-webservers-issue-affected-you-today/1024130 "2025-10-20T17:05:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-amazon-webservers-issue-affected-you-today/1024130/61 "2025-10-21T19:30:15Z")

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I’ve not been affected in any way that I’ve noticed.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-amazon-webservers-issue-affected-you-today/1024130/62 "2025-10-25T01:55:18Z")

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Cause of the problem:

> **[A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/a-single-point-of-failure-triggered-the-amazon-outage-affecting-millions/)**
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> A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon’s sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-amazon-webservers-issue-affected-you-today/1024130/63 "2025-10-25T18:06:33Z")

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My dad moved to Arizona a number of years ago. He is in IT like I am (in fact, I grew up around computers because it was his hobby and it’s probably the reason I ended up in IT eventually) and he works in a teaching job. His main focus is in preparing people to work in massive datacenters that are a huge business in Arizona. The state has a lot of wide, empty land, very little in the way of natural disasters, easy access to infrastructure, and really no other use for the land. So it’s a pretty ideal place for this kind of thing. Not surprised that the issue happened there, just because there are so many datacenters.

Also, from the article:

> It’s _always_ DNS

That made me laugh. It’s so freaking true. When I experience widespread connectivity issues, I swear at least half the time DNS is involved. It’s a cliche but for a reason. It’s almost as much of a cliche as “reboot your computer”.

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