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October 20, 2025 - View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.

October 21, 2025 - 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 apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

October 21, 2025 - In an earlier update the company said the underlying cause of the outage had been fixed, while noting there were still connectivity issues on some AWS services. This had included its Lambda service, which helps smartphones and computers run apps from the cloud. AWS now says the final technical problems have been fixed and it will later provide a full rundown detailing the cause and scope of the outage.

October 21, 2025 - But since it's a service running on AWS, we're seeing outages here too! ... Because of course he does. Also, for context, X went down on March, May and July this year (so far). ... OK! Now we're getting somewhere. According to the most recent AWS update, the fix is starting to work. The first big fix is in place, fixing the DNS problem (correcting the digital phonebook), and that is creating some "early signs of recovery." But Amazon is not done yet. Things will be bumpy for a while as additional latency is expected (traffic will be moving slowly for a while), and there's still a big backlog.

October 31, 2025 - Social Media Snapchat went down in massive outage due to AWS — live recap of how events knocked the social media app offline · Internet Reddit was down — live reports on the brief downtime · Software Slack was down — live updates as service is restored · Software Paypal and Venmo were down — live outage updates · ChatGPT ChatGPT was down — live updates on chatbot outage affecting the UK right now · Internet YouTube is not down, it's cracking down on ad blocker users — 3 ways to fix it

October 30, 2025 - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially confirmed that its cloud infrastructure is back online after the major outage which disrupted hundreds of websites and apps across the internet. The company stated that the incident was caused by a combination of DNS resolution failures and internal load balancer degradation in its US-EAST-1 region, one of its busiest data centres. “There are no issues with AWS services, and all AWS services are operating normally. We are aware that an operational issue at another infrastructure provider may be impacting some customers' applications and networks,” the company said on its status page.

October 23, 2025 - Between 11:49 PM PDT on October 19 and 2:24 AM PDT on October 20, AWS experienced increased error rates for AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region, which also impacted Amazon.com and Amazon subsidiaries, as well as AWS Support operations.

October 20, 2025 - Application monitoring might miss infrastructure problems that will cause subsequent issues. Observing multiple layers simultaneously provides more complete insight into both the nature of failures and the progress of recovery. 4. Recovery timelines are sums of dependent phases, not parallel operations. The AWS outage lasted over 15 hours from initial failure to complete restoration, not because any single fix took 15 hours, but because recovery required multiple sequential phases.

October 21, 2025 - The company says the outage has been resolved as of Monday evening. According to the AWS Health Dashboard in part, which tracked the outage, "By 3:01 PM [PT], all AWS services returned to normal operations.

October 20, 2025 - Junade Ali, a software engineering and cyber expert, told Reuters the issue appeared to be with one of the networking systems AWS uses to control a database product, meaning it could be resolved centrally in the coming hours.

October 21, 2025 - But so far air travel remains largely unaffected, with no notable delays or cancellations, according to FlightAware. Oct. 20, 2025, 6:09 a.m. ET ... Amazon Web Services said it was continuing to see recovery across most sites affected.

October 21, 2025 - These were the updates from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage for Monday, October 20, 2025.

October 21, 2025 - AWS reported that the issue has been resolved. Please reference the AWS status page as well as the Instructure status page for these updates. If you have any questions, please contact your local Office of Information Technology Help Desk. ... Instructure (the parent company of Canvas) is now reporting that they are in the process of making Canvas accessible to users affected by the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage.

October 20, 2025 - At 6:35 am, Amazon said that it had fully addressed the underlying technical issues but that “some services will have a backlog of work to work through, which may take additional time to fully process.”