"As explained by Amazon, the problem began in DynamoDB, AWS's DNS management system. Inside this system is DNS Enactor, a piece of the internet machine that continually updates domain lookup tables to balance server load and usage as conditions change over time. A bug within this DNS Enactor caused it to experience "unusually high delays" as it continued to "retry its update on several of the DNS endpoints." Meanwhile, a second DNS Enactor kicked in and that should have kept things working smoothly. But the first DNS Enactor eventually started working properly and began overwriting the work of the second DNS tool."
"A system that was built to prevent this from happening failed due to the large delays. The second DNS Enactor then deleted the older plan, which was now the active plan, and in the process removed "all IP addresses for the regional endpoint." This situation had to be manually fixed by Amazon techs, which took some time."
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On October 20, multiple online games, apps, and websites experienced a large-scale outage due to a fault in Amazon Web Services. The incident originated in DynamoDB's DNS management component, DNS Enactor, which suffered unusually high delays while retrying updates to DNS endpoints. A secondary DNS Enactor began operating but was later overwritten when the first tool resumed, leading the secondary tool to delete an older plan that had become active and remove all IP addresses for a regional endpoint. Amazon technicians had to manually restore the system, and the outage affected services from major games to connected devices. Additional gaming news items include Battlefield 6 patch notes, a battle royale closure, and a Forza Motorsport update.
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