The internet hiccupped in a way that exposed both how much power a handful of companies now hold over global connectivity and how brittle that control can be when a core piece of plumbing — in this case a DNS pathway for a managed database service — fails. The October 20 AWS disruption centered...
A large-scale disruption in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20, 2025 exposed the real-world limits of cloud concentration and the brittle dependencies many organisations still accept as “normal,” forcing IT teams, procurement leaders and regulators to re-evaluate where...
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...
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In the early hours of Monday, October 20, 2025, a widespread outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region cascaded through the internet, knocking high‑profile games and platforms offline and exposing how fragile modern gaming ecosystems can be when a single cloud region hiccups. The...