subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
Factsheet
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Web services, cloud computing
Founded July 2002; 23 years ago (2002-07) (Web services)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Web services, cloud computing
Founded July 2002; 23 years ago (2002-07) (Web services)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
March 2006; 19 years ago (2006-03) (Cloud computing)
Downdetector
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AWS live status. Problems and outages for Amazon Web Services | Downdetector
5 days ago - Real-time AWS (Amazon Web Services) status. Is AWS down or suffering an outages? Here you see what is going on.
Amazon Web Services
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Service health - Dec 19, 2025 | AWS Health Dashboard | Global
View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.
Worldwide AWS Outage?
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October 20, 2025Log in issues due to Amazon Web Services going down, affected "half" of the internet
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October 20, 2025AWS being down is concerning because one of their USPs is high availability and disaster recovery
Think about every moment of your life when you _aren't_ aware that AWS is working - effectively always. You only think about this when something goes wrong, which creates a survivor bias in your mind about how this is 'always happening'. Go look up the uptimes of AWS - it's well above 99%. I guarentee you that the alternative - self-hosting - would result in a far higher downtime, with added security issues, maintainance, cost, etc. That stuff only really starts making sense if you're a really large company who is willing to pay for sysops to run all that stuff for you. And even then - what happens if your building looses power? I promise it'll take you longer to get your servers up and running again than it will the largest cloud company in the world, with effectively limitless resources. (In the interst of a learning culture - it's 'foolproof' as in, 'it's safe from fools' not 'full proof' which is a whisky term) More on reddit.com
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October 20, 2025Videos
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NYTimes
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Amazon Says Website Outages Ease After Disruption - The New York Times
October 21, 2025 - Most websites and apps that were experiencing disruption are working normally now and the underlying issue has been mitigated, though there may be some lingering delays, Amazon Web Services said in an update.
The Independent
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Huge Amazon internet outage leaves Snapchat, Reddit, banks and more not working: Latest updates | The Independent
October 21, 2025 - Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo and Canva were all suffering problems, according to tracking website Down Detector. The issues began around 8am in the UK, or midnight pacific time, and have been continuing through the day. The problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which offers infrastructure that underpins much of the modern internet.
Reuters
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Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after outage disrupts businesses worldwide | Reuters
October 21, 2025 - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular ...
CNN
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AWS global outage, Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox and Fortnite down | CNN Business
Amazon Monday afternoon said that its systems are mostly back online after a massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services outage brought down thousands of high-profile apps, websites and online platforms with it.
Published October 21, 2025
CNBC
cnbc.com › 2025 › 10 › 20 › amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html
AWS services recover after daylong outage hits major sites
October 20, 2025 - Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
Al Jazeera
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Amazon Web Services largely recovered from chaotic global web outages | Internet News | Al Jazeera
Amazon Web Services outages had knocked many global websites and apps offline, including Signal, Coinbase and Robinhood.
Published October 20, 2025
AP News
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Amazon cloud outage takes down many online services | AP News
LONDON (AP) — Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, ...
Published October 21, 2025
Is It Down Right Now
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Aws.amazon.com - Is Amazon Web Services Down Right Now?
4 weeks ago - Probably the server is overloaded, down or unreachable because of a network problem, outage or a website maintenance is in progress... Can't Access Amazon Web Services - Troubleshooting Instructions
Newsweek
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AWS 'Returned to Normal Operations' After Major Outage - Newsweek
October 21, 2025 - The platform relies heavily on Amazon Web Services, which is still working to resolve lingering network issues following Monday’s widespread outage. Engineers are investigating the root cause, while users continue to experience login failures and app instability. More updates are expected as recovery efforts progress. ... Downdetector has become a go-to tool for spotting internet service disruptions, especially during major outages like the recent AWS failure.
Downdetector
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Amazon Web Services outage and reported problems map | Downdetector
Amazon Web Services are developed and operated by Amazon.com, the online retailer. This heat map shows where user-submitted problem reports are concentrated over the past 24 hours. It is common for some problems to be reported throughout the day. Downdetector only reports an incident when the ...
Al Jazeera
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Updates: Amazon AWS struggles to recover as outage hits Snapchat, apps | Technology News | Al Jazeera
October 21, 2025 - These were the updates from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage for Monday, October 20, 2025.
Dataconomy
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Amazon Down: Widespread AWS Outage Takes Down Internet - Dataconomy
October 21, 2025 - A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has caused widespread internet disruptions this morning, taking down dozens of popular apps, games, and websites including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo, and Ring.
NBC News
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Major AWS outage takes down web services like Snapchat and Ring
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products.
Published October 21, 2025
CBC News
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Amazon Web Services restores services after massive outage | CBC News
October 20, 2025 - (Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters) Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including ...
The Verge
theverge.com › news › tech › amazon
A massive Amazon server outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more | The Verge
October 20, 2025 - An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US-EAST-1 server region knocked out Amazon, Alexa, Ring cameras, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more.
BBC
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Amazon web services return to 'normal operations' after mass outage, tech giant says - BBC News
October 21, 2025 - Amazon Web Services says it has fixed the underlying problem that has disrupted many of the world's biggest websites and apps, and that all services have "returned to normal operations" Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox were among those affected earlier, with platform outage monitor Downdetector saying users are now reporting issues with Grok, Lyft and Hulu
Reddit
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r/aws on Reddit: Worldwide AWS Outage?
October 20, 2025 -
It all started when I was trying to by something from Mercado Livre, one of the biggest portals here in Brazil. Couldn´t load account specifics, cart or change other profile settings, like adding a credit card.
So I decided to buy it from Amazon, same behavior. Went to Brazil's Down Detector and it seems to me that all services that rely on AWS are failing.
Went to the the US Down Detector site and I am seeing what seems to be the same cascading failure right now.
Any1 facing similar problems?
Reddit
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r/EpicGamesPC on Reddit: Log in issues due to Amazon Web Services going down, affected "half" of the internet
October 20, 2025 -
Amazon's Web Services went down, creating an outage issue across many sites on the internet. This also affected Epic Games Store.