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Amazon explains what caused the AWS web crash

On October 20, 2025, the digital world experienced a significant disruption when a major outage in Amazon’s Web Services (AWS ...

A common error appeared to cause a major AWS outage, bringing down platforms from Reddit to Snapchat

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The ...

From Fortnite to Palworld, the AWS outage has ruined plenty of gamers' mornings

An Amazon Web Services outage has resulted in a lot of unhappy gamers, with server issues hitting Fortnite and many other top ...
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What is US-East-1? Why AWS Northern Virginia server issues took down half the internet

How Amazon’s most important cloud region became critical to daily online life, and why even a brief disruption can have global effects.

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting ...

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

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

The Amazon Web Services outage that took down half the internet, explained

A massive Amazon Web Services outage took down dozens of major websites and apps early Monday, affecting platforms like Disney+, Reddit, Lyft, and United Airlines.

How the online world relies on AWS cloud servers

Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers ...

AWS outage puts Northern Virginia data centers in the spotlight

The Amazon Web Services outage knocked out web services around the world. The epicenter of the outage is Northern Virginia.