Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.

With this increasing demand, AWS has been building out its data center capacity rapidly. According to Jassy, the company has added 3.8GW of power in the last 12 months. "To put that in perspective, we're now double the power capacity that AWS was in 2022, and we are on track to double again by 2027," Jassy said.

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online services on Monday.

AWS outage reports spiked again for the cloud service yesterday (October 29) after a mass outage last week. But this time, AWS was quick to dispute these reports with us.

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Amazon reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings Thursday, revealing revenue rose 13% for the June-September period.

User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern time, with most reports concentrated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region.

Actual crypto infrastructure, such as web-based wallets and so-called decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, was also inaccessible. Perhaps most troubling, entire blockchain networks stopped working, as the vast majority (all?) of the nodes on those specific networks were running on AWS.

Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) were the latest "Magnificent Seven" (MAGS) names to report earnings results this week, following Meta (META), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), and Microsoft (MSFT). Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley recaps Amazon and Apple earnings.

Perhaps one of the most avoidable breakdowns came via people’s beds. The reliance on the Internet for smart bed products from Eight Sleep resulted in people being awoken by beds locked into inclined positions and sweltering temperatures.