Thousands Of Customers Hit As Amazon’s Cloud Service AWS Reports Global Outage

On 20 October 2025, the cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major global outage, causing thousands of apps, websites and services to go down. The incident exposed major vulnerabilities in global cloud infrastructure and raised urgent questions about digital resilience and dependency on a few tech-giants that underpin internet services worldwide.

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Thousands Of Customers Hit As Amazon’s Cloud Service AWS Reports Global Outage
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Thousands Of Customers Hit As Amazon’s Cloud Service AWS Reports Global Outage

IN SHORTOn 20 October 2025, the cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major global outage, causing thousands of apps, websites and services to go down. The incident exposed major vulnerabilities in global cloud infrastructure and raised urgent questions about digital resilience and dependency on a few tech-giants that underpin internet services worldwide.

TL;DR

  • The outage began early Monday in AWS’s US-EAST-1 region and quickly spread to multiple global zones, bringing down large swathes of web services.
  • Apps and platforms reported failure or severe latency, highlighting the risk of over-dependence on one cloud provider.
  • Partial recovery was noted by evening, but experts say the incident reveals systemic weaknesses in internet infrastructure.
  • Companies worldwide are now re-evaluating their cloud-redundancy, fail-safe and multi-cloud strategies.
  • The event triggered discussion on how digital ecosystems must evolve to avoid single-point failures in critical services.

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