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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,

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

At about 4:30PM ET on October 20, things seemed to be returning back to normal. Apps like Venmo and Lyft, which were either slow to respond or completely nonresponsive before, were appearing to behave smoothly.

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.

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.

Amazon web services return to 'normal operations' after mass outage, tech giant says

More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after outage disrupts businesses worldwide

Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

The AWS outage shows that when the internet breaks, we’re more vulnerable than ever

It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

"Really shows how easy it would be for Bezos and Ellison to just turn off the internet if they wanted to, for any reason."
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