{"id":89713,"date":"2025-10-20T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89713\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:26:07","slug":"amazon-web-services-outage-disrupts-major-apps-and-streaming-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89713\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services outage disrupts major apps and streaming platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Neon, TVNZ+ and Snapchat were affected by a major internet outage this evening.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Neon, TVNZ+ and Snapchat were affected by a major internet outage this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">The issues have been traced back to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides cloud computing services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">AWS said it has \u201cidentified a potential root cause\u201d for the problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBased on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1,\u201d the company said in an update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">More to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neon, TVNZ+ and Snapchat were affected by a major internet outage this evening. The issues have been traced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[414,95,6015,37730,67628,6489,8454,359,661,14741,111,139,69,25347,11747,57784,1321,5317,3291,145,1251,32568,23939],"class_list":["post-89713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-amazon","tag-and","tag-apps","tag-disrupts","tag-fortnite","tag-games","tag-including","tag-internet","tag-major","tag-neon","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-outage","tag-platforms","tag-roblox","tag-services","tag-snapchat","tag-streaming","tag-technology","tag-web","tag-websites","tag-widespread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}