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6. Major Amazon internet outage yesterday affecting many on-line service.

Tue Oct 21, 2025, 09:23 AM

Oct 21

Nationwide and overseas. May have affected the Wordle system.

What we know about what caused Amazon Web Services outage
The AWS outage on October 21, 2025, was caused by a DNS issue within AWS's DynamoDB service, which affected the Domain Name System (DNS) that helps apps find the correct server addresses. This led to a chain reaction, causing many services to fail, including banking apps, gaming platforms, and smart home devices. The outage was centered in AWS's US-EAST-1 data center region, which is one of its most important cloud hubs. The outage was resolved by 5:24 a.m. ET, but not before millions of requests failed and backups formed.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/video/caused-amazon-web-services-outage-126716555

If the system Wordle is run on was impacted, it may have lost the stored past activity.

Just guessing.

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Did anyones Wordl streak reset today? [View all] skypilot Oct 21 OP

The same thing happened to me yesterday. Diamond_Dog Oct 21 #1

Thanks skypilot Oct 21 #2

Were you able to get it corrected? skypilot Oct 21 #7

No I just started over. I haven't been playing that long. Diamond_Dog Oct 21 #9

That can happen if you aren't logged in or are using incognito mode nuxvomica Oct 21 #3

I'm logged in. Not incognito. skypilot Oct 21 #4

It probably is a bug then nuxvomica Oct 21 #5

Major Amazon internet outage yesterday affecting many on-line service. Fla Dem Oct 21 #6

Wordle has reset for me several times northoftheborder Oct 21 #8