The internet wobbled when a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) region suffered a control‑plane failure, knocking hundreds of high‑profile sites and apps partially or wholly offline and exposing how small, ordinary technical failures in the cloud can produce outsized, global disruption.
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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 wide-ranging outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20 produced hours of disruption for major consumer apps, enterprise services and several public‑sector portals — and reignited a debate that has been simmering for years: when the bulk of the internet’s infrastructure sits...
Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region triggered a multi‑hour, global outage on October 20, 2025, when DNS resolution failures for the DynamoDB API and a cascading impairment inside EC2’s internal networking and health‑monitoring subsystems left thousands of consumer and enterprise apps partially...
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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Microsoft warned that Azure customers could see increased latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables were cut in the Red Sea, forcing emergency rerouting of traffic and exposing fragile single points in global cloud and internet infrastructure.
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The disruption began on...
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