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It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company. It’s not just that people couldn’t place mobile orders for coffee at Starbucks or ask Alexa for the weather. Hospitals said crucial communications services weren’t working, and teachers couldn’t access their planned lessons for the day. Chime, a mobile …

A major outage at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted a large portion of the internet, taking down apps, websites and online tools used by millions of people around the world, before services were eventually restored. The hours-long breakdown of the cloud system that supports a portion of the internet revealed just how much of modern-life depends on …

A DNS error appears to have been the culprit behind a major Amazon Web Services outage at its oldest and largest data center. Early Monday morning, Amazon’s AWS experienced an outage that brought down more than 100 of its services. Platforms like Snapchat, Reddit, and Venmo that use AWS for hosting servers and delivering content all suffered the impact, as …

AWS outage spotlights the global economy’s fragile foundations  Axios Huge global outage impacts Amazon, Fortnite and Snapchat | CNN Business  CNN What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline?  Al Jazeera Amazon’s AWS Disruption Creates Outages for Hundreds of Websites for Hours  The New York Times Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq jump amid trade-war lull, with …

Refresh 2025-10-20T08:09:09.941Z A massive spike (Image credit: Down detector) The huge number of reports surfacing this morning on DownDetector shows the extent of this morning’s problems. While the reports are falling now, at their peak around 3.50 a.m. ET / 8.50 a.m. BST, the reports were up at 22,762. 2025-10-20T08:43:39.615Z C14A: Service unavailable (Image credit: Tom’s Guide) Trying to log …

On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon’s cloud division to stay up and running. That includes a long list of popular software like Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite. Even Amazon’s …

Amazon’s AWS Disruption Creates Outages for Hundreds of Websites for Hours  The New York Times Huge global outage impacts Amazon, Fortnite and Snapchat | CNN Business  CNN Amazon Web Services outage trolled as ‘rehearsal for the end of the internet’ with slew of memes  New York Post Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures rise amid trade-war lull, with flurry of earnings …

As promised, AWS is keeping customers up to date with its investigation into the outages. From its recent statement, it appears there has been progress as customers are encouraged to try accessing the services disrupted earlier again. Here is the full statement: “We have applied initial mitigations and we are observing early signs of recovery for some impacted AWS Services. …

Widespread AWS Outage Hits Financial and Consumer Sites  Bloomberg.com Huge global outage impacts Amazon, Fortnite and Snapchat  CNN Amazon Web Services outage hits dozens of websites and apps  The Guardian Many Websites Are Down After AWS Outage: Live Updates  The New York Times Snapchat and Duolingo among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage  BBC Source link

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region” — though outages are …