Here in Europe, there are of course more people awake right now. Translated from the FRNOG mailing list:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2025, at 11:16 a.m., Gaël AVELINE <g.aveline@giroll.org> wrote: The interns started complaining when they couldn't connect to Brawl Stars (a smartphone game), which tipped me off. It started in the eastern United States, but it's spreading to other regions. Many tools are affected, some less important, but also Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) for authentication. According to AWS, it's still (always?) the fault of the DNS.
…and:
On Oct 20, 2025, at 11:23, Friezer <hello@friezer.eu> wrote: Essential tools such as Atlassian and Canva are not accessible. I am unable to connect to AWS, even though I am a user of the services in Paris (EU-WEST-3). Personal tools such as Snapchat are severely degraded, with an inability to send a Snap to multiple people, and the map is completely empty. Clash Royale, another Supercell game, is undergoing maintenance, which I think is related to this outage. The most worrying thing is that in 2025, the big names are not really thinking about high availability and are relying on cloud providers to do it, but when a DNS server goes down, it causes chaos around the world... Hopefully it will be resolved before the end of the day!
…and AusNOG:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 at 19:14, Jennifer Sims <jenn@jenn.id.au> wrote: Yep most of the “control plane” for AWS lives in US-East-1.
On Oct 20, 2025, at 11:22, Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com> wrote: Not like they've not had centralised issues with east1 before. I recall this single zone hosting the status notification, so when it disappeared all the icons couldn't be downloaded for their status page
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