What caused the AWS outage - and why has it made the internet fall apart?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably ...

AWS was not down, and it was wrongly connected to the Microsoft outage — here’s what went down yesterday

AWS outage reports spiked again for the cloud service yesterday (October 29) after a mass outage last week. But this time, ...

AWS was not down, but the Microsoft outage made it seem like it was — here’s what went down yesterday

AWS outage reports spiked again for the cloud service yesterday (October 29) after a mass outage last week. But this time, ...

What is AWS? Here's why so many sites, apps were impacted during Monday's outage

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including ...

What caused massive outage for thousands of sites? What to know about AWS incident

The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues ...

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 ...

Snapchat, Ring and more: What is AWS and when will issues be fixed?

Thousands of websites and apps like Snapchat, Roblox, Ring and more were down or experiencing issues Monday morning as a ...

Why Did Amazon Web Services (AWS) Really Go Down? Here’s What We Know

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?
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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.

We Now Know What Caused The AWS Outage That Shut Down Most Of The Internet

A massive AWS outage brought Internet-reliant services, from software to smart devices, down worldwide, and we now know what ...

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Was AWS Outage Taken Seriously Enough?

We are just concluding Cybersecurity Awareness Month, though this year’s reminder felt more like a warning flare than a celebration. The message is clear, however. Our digital infrastructure is ...