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Amazon Error Creates Massive Internet Outage

posted by hubie on Tuesday October 21 2025, @11:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the turning-it-off-and-on-again dept.

looorg writes:

Amazon accidentally turned off large portions of the internet on Monday morning.

A problem at Amazon's cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world early Monday, taking down dozens of online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal.

About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem. AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to some of the world's biggest organizations. Its customers include government departments, universities and businesses, including The Associated Press.

Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to its domain name system, which converts web addresses into IP addresses so websites and apps can load on internet-connected devices.

"The world now runs on the cloud," and the internet is seen as a utility like water or electricity, Burgess said.

Several major apps were not working. Coinbase, Fortnite, Signal and Zoom faced lengthy outages, as did Amazon's own services, including its Ring video surveillance products.

Millions of companies and organizations rely on AWS to host their websites, apps and other critical online systems. The company has data centers all over the world, and Amazon is said to have at least 30% of the total cloud market.

Amazon did not give a reason for what caused the outage.

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-east-internet-services-outage-654a12ac9aff0bf4b9dc0e22499d92d7
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2025, @03:18AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2025, @03:18AM (#1421716)

    So it's entirely plausible that inexperienced engineers working on very limited rest either didn't anticipate a problem or accidentally caused one.

    Maybe they got a dose of "you get what you pay for"?

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2025, @07:31PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 22 2025, @07:31PM (#1421814)

    Doesn't matter. They only care how well their hedge funds are performing. The store front is a fencing operation to sell counterfeit goods. Notice that nobody goes to jail whenever they get caught.

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday October 23 2025, @12:52AM

      by Thexalon (636) on Thursday October 23 2025, @12:52AM (#1421849)

      The storefront is basically irrelevant to their profits right now. The big bucks are all in AWS, especially sweet sweet government cash going to it.

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