AWS outage update: What happened and why?

Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

The incident began at 11:48 PM PDT on October 19 (7.48 UTC on October 20), when customers reported increased DynamoDB API ...

AWS outage hits major apps and services, resurfacing old questions about cloud redundancy

Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major ...

AWS outage - Amazon confirms recovery after Zoom, Slack, Canva among work apps hit

If you were struggling to connect to your work apps, you aren't alone - Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage. After an issue in one of its US regions overnight, users were unable to ...
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AWS Details Root Cause of Major DynamoDB Outage in Northern Virginia Region

AWS has shared new details about what caused the major service outage that hit its Northern Virginia region on October 19 and ...

How Amazon’s AWS outage took down huge chunks of the web

Amazon suffered a massive AWS outage on October 20, 2025, with services returning to normal operation after 15 hours.
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AWS Tempts Community With Updates to Lambda Serverless Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS) threw more support behind its Lambda serverless computing platform, which has been the impetus for much of the recent push around the market segment. The update includes the ...