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AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?
A widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, knocked dozens of major sites and apps offline worldwide, from Amazon and Prime Vid
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Massive AWS Outage Exposes Internet's Weaknesses, Experts Warn
A major Amazon Web Services outage brought parts of the global economy to a halt, disrupting everything from banking apps to airline systems.The incident, centered in AWS's massive US-East-1 region in northern Virginia,
More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
A major outage caused by an issue at Amazon Web Services affected hundreds of websites, games and apps, including Amazon, Snapchat, Fortnite and several banks. Amazon says it fixed the underlying problem but a full recovery will take longer.