Digital Trends

How Amazon’s AWS outage took down huge chunks of the web

If you had trouble accessing some of your favorite websites and services on October 20, you weren’t alone. A huge swath of the internet experienced hours of issues with outages reported across ...
Futurism

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

Apps and platforms relying on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing service, were in a jam this morning after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world’s internet — in ...
Mashable

Is Amazon still delivering packages during the AWS outage?

As you may have heard, Amazon had some problems on Monday. In fact, that's a huge understatement. On Monday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides the infrastructure for many of your favorite ...

Amazon tells us what we already knew: It ditched Android because of piracy (Update: Amazon's statement)

Amazon has explained why it moved to a new Vega OS for its Fire TV Stick 4K Select, moving away from the traditional ...
Hollywood Life

Why Did AWS Go Down? Go Behind the Amazon Outage Today

Everything from your favorite apps to major banking services stumbled on October 20, 2025, after an unexpected failure at Amazon Web Services. More than 4 million user-reported disruptions and a ...

OpenAI's $38 billion Amazon AWS deal gives it access to 'hundreds of thousands' of Nvidia GPUs

The AWS partnership is OpenAI's first major cloud computing deal since it struck a new agreement with Microsoft, which gave ...
Hindustan Times

AWS outage brings down half the internet for hours. Here's what happened

Social media and messaging apps such as Snapchat, WhatsApp, Signal, and Reddit went down for hours due to AWS outage, leaving millions unable to send messages. A massive outage in Amazon Web Services ...
Mashable

Amazon launches new AWS incident reporting tool, and not a second too late

Amazon has launched a new incident report generation tool in CloudWatch, allowing customers to quickly build post-incident analysis reports. The company announced the new feature in a blog post ...
Hindustan Times

Amazon identifies potential root cause for AWS outage, sees ‘significant signs of recovery’

Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said it has identified the root cause for the AWS outage that's “taken out half the internet”, and now seeing “significant signs of recovery”. Global services or features ...
Bleeping Computer

AWS outage crashes Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite, Perplexity and more

AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, Prime Video, Perplexity AI, Canva and more. The outage started approx 30 minutes ago and it's affecting consumers in all regions, ...
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Amazon AWS Outage Status: Updates on the Major Internet Outage Today

A global outage at Amazon Web Services is disrupting top websites and apps. Here’s what else has been affected and what’s next. On October 20, 2025, the internet suffered a massive jolt when Amazon ...