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BBC
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What caused the AWS outage - and why did it make the internet fall apart?
But on Monday, something very mundane went very wrong: a common kind of outage known as a Domain Name System (DNS) error. People who work in the tech industry will be rolling their eyes right now. ... When someone taps an app or clicks a link, their device is essentially sending a request to be connected to that service. DNS is supposed to act like a map, and on Monday, AWS lost its bearings – platforms like Snapchat, Canva and HMRC were all still there but it couldn't see where they were to direct traffic to them.
Published October 21, 2025
Al Jazeera
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What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline? | Internet News | Al Jazeera
October 21, 2025 - The problem started in one of AWS’s main data centres in Virginia, its oldest and biggest site, after a technical update to the API – a connection between different computer programmes – of DynamoDB, a key cloud database service that stores ...
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Worldwide AWS Outage?
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October 20, 2025Non-Tech Here, Curious on AWS Outage Affecting Multiple Sites All Day
When a website has to handle people (users) going to the website and making use of the services on it that requires computers actually processing those decisions and actions by the users. In the past businesses would do this themselves by having dedicated computers (servers) handle that processing. They would have these computers on-premises and have their own IT handle expansion and maintenance of those servers. Nowadays most of the businesses and websites on the internet no longer have their own computers because of the time and investment needed to manage it and just rent the usage of computers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or whatever hosting they choose to use. AWS normally has a 99.999% availability meaning that it normally has like a 5 minute total downtime for the entire year and for the most part they're very consistent about maintaining that availability. When it goes down that means the businesses that rent the usage from Amazon don't have any way to actually process incoming requests to their website and don't have a backup in place (because this usually does not happen) meaning that the websites go down. Huge amounts of the internet including the sites you mentioned use Amazon to host their sites and so when it goes down they also do. More on reddit.com
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October 20, 2025Why was AWS outage so devastating?
Multi region redundancy is expensive, complicated and probably not worth it, so many companies don't do it. Combined with the fact that us east 1 is the largest and oldest region, when it goes down, a lot of things go down with it More on reddit.com
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October 21, 2025How has the AWS outage affected you today?
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October 20, 2025Reuters
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Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after outage disrupts businesses worldwide | Reuters
October 21, 2025 - Bar charts showing revenue and market share data for Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other peers · Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms - ranging from food delivery apps to gaming platforms and airline systems ...
Tom's Guide
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AWS was down — live updates following massive outage that broke the internet | Tom's Guide
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.
CNN
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AWS global outage, Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox and Fortnite down | CNN Business
After narrowing down the cause of its massive and ongoing internet connectivity issues, Amazon said early Monday afternoon that it has a plan in place to fix the system responsible for the outage, and it appears to be working. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is “now seeing connectivity and API recovery for AWS services,” the company said.
Published October 21, 2025
NBC News
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Major AWS outage takes down web services like Snapchat and Ring
AWS, a cloud hosting service that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline after 3 a.m. because of a problem with one of its core database products, the company said.
Published October 21, 2025
WIRED
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What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet | WIRED
October 20, 2025 - The outages stemmed from Amazon's DynamoDB database application programming interfaces in US-EAST-1, and AWS said in status updates that the problem was specifically related to DNS resolution issues.
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?
Los Angeles Times
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Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services? - Los Angeles Times
October 20, 2025 - The outage was another reminder of how consumers, businesses and even government organizations rely on AWS and its massive cloud to make their websites, apps and other online services work.
Reddit
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r/aws on Reddit: Non-Tech Here, Curious on AWS Outage Affecting Multiple Sites All Day
October 20, 2025 -
Hi All,
As title suggests, I just popped in as a non-technical non-user aside from knowing that Flickr is down and has been all day long now, and apparently many other large sites, Reddit included.
Anyone here know the real deal and what's what and can explain it to me like I'm 5?
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When a website has to handle people (users) going to the website and making use of the services on it that requires computers actually processing those decisions and actions by the users. In the past businesses would do this themselves by having dedicated computers (servers) handle that processing. They would have these computers on-premises and have their own IT handle expansion and maintenance of those servers. Nowadays most of the businesses and websites on the internet no longer have their own computers because of the time and investment needed to manage it and just rent the usage of computers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, or whatever hosting they choose to use. AWS normally has a 99.999% availability meaning that it normally has like a 5 minute total downtime for the entire year and for the most part they're very consistent about maintaining that availability. When it goes down that means the businesses that rent the usage from Amazon don't have any way to actually process incoming requests to their website and don't have a backup in place (because this usually does not happen) meaning that the websites go down. Huge amounts of the internet including the sites you mentioned use Amazon to host their sites and so when it goes down they also do.
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In Flickr terms, imagine AWS as a giant version of Flickr. Not just for photos, but for everything. Apps, websites, and data. Companies use AWS to store their files and run their services, just like you upload photos to Flickr. AWS is built with a lot of backups and redundancies. It keeps copies of things in multiple “regions” which is just different datacenters across the world. Normally, if one has a problem, another can pick up the slack. But sometimes, very rarely, a major issue hits an entire region. When that happens, every app or service that depends on that specific region can go down. And because some AWS tools depend on other AWS tools (even across regions) it can trigger a domino effect. One outage cascades into others, and suddenly you got a big ol' ball of clusterfuck.
Mashable
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AWS outage update: What happened and why? | Mashable
A service disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's popular cloud hosting and data service, caused massive problems for internet users starting their workweek on Monday. Since AWS powers huge portions of the internet, the list of services and sites that suffered outages on Monday was pretty staggering.
Published October 21, 2025
Amazon Web Services
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AP News
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Massive Amazon cloud outage has been resolved after disrupting internet use worldwide
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
The Hill
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AWS outage hits Fortnite, Lyft, and other services
October 21, 2025 - After initially seeing signs of recovery, the company said late Monday morning it was “experiencing scaling issues” from the outage. It later noted issues with its support channels, chats and calls and core functions, such as trading and transfers. Peloton said early Monday morning it was “seeing recovery from the AWS outage and are actively monitoring all platforms and services.” However, the exercise company later noted “another spike in errors across several Peloton services.”
The Verge
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Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
October 20, 2025 - Amazon provided a final update at 6:53PM ET, announcing that “all AWS services returned to normal operations” by 6:01PM ET. The company attributed the outage to resolution issues in its domain name system (DNS) which translates website domains ...
Sky News
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Internet outage as it happened: Major issues lasting hours hit more than 1,000 companies | Money News | Sky News
October 20, 2025 - The outage affecting Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider, points to an overreliance on a centralised system to power the internet. Amazon's cloud-computing division has infrastructure set up all around the world, which allows companies ...
WIRED
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The Long Tail of the AWS Outage | WIRED
October 22, 2025 - A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as major communication, financial, health care, education, and government platforms around the world suffered disruptions. As the day wore on, AWS diagnosed and began working to correct the issue, which stemmed from the company's critical US-EAST-1 region based in northern Virginia.
Newsweek
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AWS 'Returned to Normal Operations' After Major Outage - Newsweek
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.
The Guardian
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Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline | Amazon | The Guardian
October 24, 2025 - Amazon has revealed the cause of this week’s hours-long AWS outage, which took everything from Signal to smart beds offline, was a bug in automation software that had widespread consequences.