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Amazon Web Services outage hits major websites

Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon’s cloud division to stay up and running.

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Amazon's AWS struggles to recover after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide

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Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS nears recovery after major outage

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Major Sites Hobbled by Amazon Web Services Outage

Major sites and apps were down for millions of users Monday, hit by a far-reaching and stubborn Amazon Web Services outage that has disrupted retail sales, social-media and financial services and more...

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The Amazon Web Services outage that took down half the internet, explained

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Amazon Web Services global outage 'resolved' after disruption, company says

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Fortnite, Snapchat down in major outage. When will Amazon Web Services be back up?

However, not all websites that use the service have returned to full functionality yet.

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Amazon outage forces hundreds of websites offline for hours

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Amazon internet outage disrupts popular websites, apps and services around the world

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Amazon confirms continuing errors with AWS as engineers work on EC2 and Lambda

Amazon Web Services (AWS) spent the entire day fighting to bring its systems back online after a massive global outage knocked out some of the world’s most-used platforms, including Snapchat, Venmo, Robinhood,

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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Is Snapchat down? Thousands report issues amid AWS outage

Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage on Oct. 20 that disrupted many websites and apps, including Snapchat.

What caused AWS outage?

It wasn’t a hack, but instead it had a Domain Name System or DNS error that occurred at AWS’s US-EAST-1 location in northern Virginia.