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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snapchat users across the country found themselves unable to send snaps or load messages on Oct. 20, but the problem had nothing to do with the app itself. Instead, the social media platform became ...

Canvas, a massive online teaching platform that hosts course information, lessons and assignments at high schools and colleges across the U.S., has been impacted by the ongoing AWS incident, with ...

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning. Researchers reflecting ...

A major outage at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted a large portion of the internet, taking down apps, websites and online tools used by millions of people around the world, before ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage on October 20, 2025, causing disruptions across several major apps and websites worldwide. The issue began in the US-East-1 region, one of AWS’s most ...

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday is causing widespread issues for numerous online services. The problems are primarily linked to the AWS US-East-1 region, according to DownDetector.com.