Amazon says it has resolved internet services outage that left websites and apps lagging around the world

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline ...

Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

How the online world relies on AWS cloud servers

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers ...
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What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

The internet just had another global outage. Why does this keep happening?

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, ...
Technical.ly

What is US-East-1? Why AWS Northern Virginia server issues took down half the internet

How Amazon’s most important cloud region became critical to daily online life, and why even a brief disruption can have global effects.

AWS Outage: What To Know As Amazon Says Cloud Service Is Back To Normal

AWS said in a status update on Monday just before 4 p.m. EDT that all of its services had "returned to normal operations" after much-used sites like Snapchat, Canva, Venmo, Coinbase, Ring doorbell ...

From Amazon to Roblox, how the AWS outage wrecked the internet

On October 20, an AWS outage caused widespread disruption to websites and apps, highlighting the reliance on cloud services ...