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Cloudflare and AWS outages expose growing fragility in US internet infrastructure

24/7 Wall St. Posted: December 4, 2025 | Last updated: December 4, 2025 Douglas and Lee discuss two major internet disruptions, the vulnerability of cloud and power infrastructure, and the risks posed ...
24/7 Wall St

Cloudflare and AWS Keep Breaking the Internet

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Our conversation began with a pair of incidents that ...
Bleeping Computer

New ShadowV2 botnet malware used AWS outage as a test opportunity

A new Mirai-based botnet malware named ‘ShadowV2’ has been observed targeting IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, and other vendors with exploits for known vulnerabilities. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs ...
Mashable

AWS outage update: What happened and why?

UPDATE Tuesday, 1:41 p.m. ET: With Amazon's AWS issues fully resolved, the online world was left to parse through the postmortem on Tuesday. The modern internet is vast but delicate. As many news ...
CNN

How a tiny bug spiraled into a massive outage that took down the internet

A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update ...
CNET

That Massive AWS Outage Explained: Failures and Fixes Tripping Over Themselves

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor ...
The New York Times

Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed.

The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: people who just wanted a good night’s sleep. By Sopan Deb Some users ...
Futurism

AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI

When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras.
Wired

The Long Tail of the AWS Outage

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning. Researchers reflecting ...
Ars Technica

AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea

This week’s Amazon Web Services outage had some people waking up on the wrong side of the bed. A Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affected AWS cloud hosting, resulting in an outage that ...
CBS News

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

The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and ...