A sweeping failure in Amazon Web Services’ Northern Virginia hub knocked large swathes of the internet offline for hours on October 20, 2025, disrupting streaming, gaming, messaging, banking and many business platforms while underscoring the systemic risks of concentrating critical...
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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