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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 …

Attendees walk through an expo hall at a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services at The Venetian Las Vegas on Nov. 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. AWS is responsible for infrastructure supporting websites across the internet. Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services A massive outage at Amazon Web …

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 …

Internet users on Monday afternoon continued to report issues with platforms that rely on Amazon Web Services, hours after Amazon’s cloud computing unit said it was recovering from an outage that started earlier in the day.  The Amazon division provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies. Early Monday, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, …

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 …

UPDATE: Hundreds of websites and apps which went offline temporarily in North America and Europe on Monday morning following an outage at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in North Virginia appeared to be functioning as normal as the U.S. woke up. Earlier in the day, Amazon Services such as Amazon Music, Prime Video and Amazon Alexa went down …

LONDON (AP) — Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service that took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal. About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting …

A major internet outage has hit dozens of websites and apps around the world, with users reporting trouble getting online after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing service. The affected platforms include Snapchat, Roblox, Signal and Duolingo as well as a host of Amazon-owned operations including its main retail site and the Ring doorbell company. In the UK, Lloyds bank was …

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. …

Amazon Web Services Inc. signage at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. AWS cited an “operational issue” affecting “multiple services” and said it was …