After AWS Outage – Why Medium Only Works on VPN in India and How I Fixed It?

Since the recent AWS outage, Medium has been facing several issues. It was down for almost half a day in India, and it seems the platform hasn’t fully recovered yet.

After some testing, I found a temporary fix by bypassing the local ISP’s DNS. Updating the DNS servers to Google’s public ones restored access to Medium.

Steps Followed for Mac-OS:

1. Update the DNS entry with google public DNS servers and remove old DNS IPS local entry from Mac OS Wi-Fi settings

   8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

2. Additionally flush

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

3. Checkout DNS used my medium now

nslookup medium.com

It should return something like:

Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53

4. Test the medium portal using ping

ping medium.com

If you get a successful response (no packet loss), you’re good to go.

Steps Followed for Android- Mobile OS:

Step1: Go to settings and connections

Step2: Find out DNS settings under more connection settings

Step3: Add dns.google under private DNS.

Step4: Save and reload medium app.

Let’s hope this local ISP issue gets resolved soon. I’ve already raised a request through the Medium Help Center and will update here once I receive a response.