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 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.
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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 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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