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Is Amazon DynamoDB down?

OperationalLast checked Jul 12, 2026, 4:39 AM UTC

Last 90 days

100% uptime · 0 incidents
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What Amazon DynamoDB does - and how it fails

Amazon DynamoDB is AWS’s flagship NoSQL database - and one of the most load-bearing internal dependencies inside AWS itself, which is why DynamoDB incidents (like the October 2025 DNS failure) can cascade far beyond customer tables into dozens of other AWS services.

  • Elevated error rates or latency for reads/writes in one region
  • Throttling (ProvisionedThroughputExceeded) on hot partitions
  • DNS/endpoint resolution failures making the whole service unreachable
  • Global Tables replication lag between regions

Amazon DynamoDB questions

Is DynamoDB down right now?

The live pill above shows our latest check. DynamoDB sits under many other AWS services - when it fails, you often see the blast radius first (Lambda errors, console failures) before the root cause is public.

What was the October 2025 DynamoDB outage?

On October 19–20, 2025, a DNS automation defect took the DynamoDB endpoint in us-east-1 offline, cascading into 100+ AWS services for the better part of a day. Our full post-mortem explains the race condition and the lessons.

Can I claim credits for DynamoDB downtime?

Yes - DynamoDB carries a 99.99% monthly uptime SLA (99.999% for Global Tables), with tiered credits paid on claim.

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