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UPDATE Tuesday, 1:41 p.m. ET: With Amazon's AWS issues fully resolved, the online world was left to parse through the postmortem on Tuesday. The modern internet is vast but delicate. As many news ...

Amazon Web Services faced a brief wave of outage reports Wednesday, though the cloud giant said there were no such issues. User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage on October 20, 2025, causing widespread disruptions as hundreds of websites went offline for over 12 hours. This incident highlighted the ...

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Our live coverage of the massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services outage has wrapped for the day. Please scroll through the posts below to learn about Monday’s developments. Amazon Monday ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. People struggled to access social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, payments app Venmo and other popular ...

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A widespread outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) temporarily took down dozens of major websites and applications Monday, underscoring how deeply the cloud computing giant is embedded in the ...

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. The outages ...