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...
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 has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue.
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When telecom giants and tech behemoths sit down at the negotiating table in Dubai—especially during something with a title as eyebrow-raising as “Dubai AI Week”—the rest of us IT mortals should probably start paying attention. Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, more digestibly known...
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