AWS outage crashes Amazon, PrimeVideo, Fortnite, Perplexity and more

AWS experienced a major outage in the US-EAST-1 region that caused DNS resolution issues for the DynamoDB API endpoint and subsequent network load balancer problems, disrupting many consumer services (Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite, Canva, Perplexity, Roblox, Hulu, and others). AWS posted status updates as teams mitigated the issue and services began recovering; the report is a developing news article and contains no evidence of malicious activity or technical indicators of an attack.