cloud outages

Amazon Web Services suffered a severe, day‑long outage on October 20, 2025 that cascaded through a huge swath of the internet, knocking offline consumer apps, gaming platforms, finance services, and even parts of Amazon’s own retail and device ecosystems — and the disruption underlined a simple...

The week’s major cloud outage — centered on Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cluster — sent a clear message to businesses and consumers: the internet’s plumbing is now concentrated in a handful of corporate hands, and when one of those hands falters the effect ripples through everything from games...

Amazon Web Services suffered a region‑level failure that cascaded into a multi‑hour global outage, knocking dozens of major websites, apps and cloud‑backed devices offline and exposing the tight coupling between core cloud control‑plane primitives and everyday user experiences. Background /...

A sweeping Amazon Web Services outage on Monday morning knocked large swathes of the internet offline for hours, disrupting popular apps, streaming services, financial platforms and even parts of government infrastructure while underscoring a familiar but worsening reality: a handful of...

The internet you use every day — from messaging apps and streaming services to online banking and government portals — runs on racks of servers, miles of fibre and a handful of companies that operate vast, power-hungry data centres: the cloud is the invisible engine of the web. Recent reporting...

A massive Amazon Web Services outage on October 20, 2025 knocked hundreds of major websites and apps offline and left global internet traffic sluggish for hours, exposing the deep concentration of modern online infrastructure in a handful of cloud regions and the cascading fragility that follows...

A large portion of the public internet experienced service disruptions on October 20, 2025 after a major outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region, knocking high‑profile apps such as Snapchat and Canva offline for many users and exposing brittle dependencies around DynamoDB, DNS...

Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a DNS‑related failure that briefly knocked hundreds — by some counts more than a thousand — of high‑profile sites and services offline on October 20, 2025, and the outage underlined a simple technical truth with major business consequences: when a...

More than 1,000 websites and apps went dark across large parts of the internet on Monday morning as a major outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region triggered elevated error rates, DNS resolution failures and cascading service interruptions that briefly knocked out popular consumer apps...

A wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cloud region crippled dozens of high‑profile internet services for hours on Monday, knocking streaming platforms, messaging apps, gaming services and even some bank websites offline and refreshing urgent questions about how much of the...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad outage that knocked major apps and games offline across large parts of the internet, leaving millions unable to sign in, save work, or even start a meeting as the cloud provider’s US‑EAST‑1 region reported “increased error rates” and elevated latencies...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack was briefly knocked off balance on October 9, 2025, when an Azure Front Door (AFD) capacity failure interrupted sign-ins and access to Microsoft 365 services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, blocking administrators from the Microsoft 365 admin...

Microsoft 365 suffered a region-wide disruption in North America on October 9, 2025, when a portion of Microsoft’s network infrastructure was misconfigured and briefly knocked a broad set of Microsoft 365 services — including Teams, Exchange Online and the Microsoft 365 admin portals — offline...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hiccup on October 9 produced one of the more disruptive service outages of the year, leaving Microsoft 365 users locked out of collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, cloud management consoles in Azure, and even authentication-backed services such as Minecraft for...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and...

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe saw increased latency and degraded performance after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, forcing traffic onto longer, congested detours and exposing persistent vulnerabilities...

Microsoft's Azure cloud felt the ripple effects of a string of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea on September 6, 2025, as traffic carrying vital Asia–Europe and Middle East connections was forced onto longer, more congested routes — a stark reminder that even the largest cloud platforms remain...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and exposing how physical shipping lanes and seabed cables remain a critical, fragile layer beneath cloud-era resilience...

Microsoft’s terse Service Health advisory on September 6, 2025 — warning that “network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea” — was the first public signal of a disruption that quickly rippled through global cloud...