# How One AWS DNS Failure Cascaded Across Half the Internet

> us-east-1’s DNS control plane faceplanted for 15 hours and dragged 142 AWS services—and a good chunk of the public internet—down with it. Here’s the forensic tour.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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us-east-1’s DNS control plane faceplanted for 15 hours and dragged 142 AWS services—and a good chunk of the public internet—down with it. Here’s the forensic tour. [**Read more**](https://vonng.com/en/cloud/aws-dns-failure/)