Amazon Web Services

5 hours ago - Real-time AWS (Amazon Web Services) status. Is AWS down or suffering an outages? Here you see what is going on.

November 15, 2025 - In contrast, the AWS outage originated within the core of cloud infrastructure, taking down websites, payment platforms, hospitals, and logistics systems that depend on it. CrowdStrike accepted responsibility and worked to fix the issue, while AWS has so far routinely disclaimed liability and provided no compensation to downstream users.

November 10, 2025 - The AWS outage was a painful, expensive lesson in the fragility of concentration.

November 7, 2025 - The bolt-on patch approach is simply no longer viable. All of the hyperscalers —especially AWS — need re-architected systems, if not entirely new systems that can support global users for 2026 and beyond.

November 7, 2025 - ... While we imagine complex cyberattacks, the reality is often more mundane. The AWS outage on October 20 stemmed from a DNS configuration error in the US-EAST-1 region, which cascaded into widespread communication failures across services.

November 4, 2025 - On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a massive outage in its largest and most critical region, US-EAST-1. Though not the only incident that has happened, it did impact many businesses and was a textbook example of how overreliance on a single cloud provider can cause a business to halt in case of emergency.

November 1, 2025 - AWS uses DynamoDB, a simple database service, to track the life cycle of virtual machine resources created on EC2, its compute service. The outage began when the DNS was unable to route data to the DynamoDB service.

November 3, 2025 - The outage served as a reminder of the critical role cloud infrastructure plays in modern customer service delivery and the risks of centralized dependencies. While the AWS outage originated from Amazon’s servers in Northern Virginia, affecting the US East Coast and parts of Western Europe, the Azure outage spread further, with Downdetector indicating disruptions from parts of Asia as well as the U.S.

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October 31, 2025 - But as it turns out AWS itself was not having issues and we were wrong in reporting that without confirming first. ... It comes down to two things: interdependence and the widespread impact of the very real Microsoft outage that hit yesterday. In ...

October 31, 2025 - Following a major AWS outage caused by a DNS failure, experts discuss the risks of cloud dependency and the need for a multi-cloud resilience strategy

October 30, 2025 - An AWS outage brings down thousands of businesses and organizations. A failed cybersecurity upgrade disrupts Microsoft365 services, flights, medical appointments, deliveries, television broadcasts, and government operations.

October 30, 2025 - But the Associated Press reported that Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to its domain name system that converts web addresses into IP addresses, which are numeric designations that identify locations on the Internet.

October 30, 2025 - The root cause of the outage stemmed from two automated systems that were updating the same data simultaneously. AWS said the issue was with two programs competing to write the same DNS entry at the same time, which resulted in an empty DNS ...

October 29, 2025 - Over a hundred services were impacted by the errors and slow response times, and while it only lasted a couple of hours, it was enough to give users a headache. But unlike other instances, this situation did not result in a network outage. The issues were within the internal systems used by AWS itself, which directly affected everything else outside of it.

October 21, 2025 - The broad outage hit millions of people worldwide, causing problems for consumers and businesses alike as people found themselves unable to use social media sites, gaming platforms, payment services, financial trading apps, commercial software, and more—disrupting global industries worth hundreds of billions of dollars. "Some services such as AWS Config, Redshift, and Connect continue to have a backlog of messages that they will finish processing over the next few hours," AWS said in a status update at 3:53 p.m.

October 28, 2025 - This outage has exposed the desperate need for backup infrastructure, especially in the professional world.

October 22, 2025 - AWS said in status updates that by 6:01 pm ET on Monday “all AWS services returned to normal operations.” The outage directly stemmed from Amazon's DynamoDB database application programming interfaces and, according to the company, ...

October 21, 2025 - Throughout the day several fixes were deployed though outages continued to affect a wideswath of services from banking apps to college instructional platforms and more. Collectively, reports on Downdetector hit a high of over 50,000 reports starting around 7:50 am. For the unaware, AWS is crucial backbone of the internet acting as infrastructre for apps and websites the likes of Snapchat, Venmo, Ring, Pokémon GO and more all went down down because of AWS' outage.