Amazon Web Services outage wreaks havoc across internet
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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,
More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
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.
Amazon suffered a massive AWS outage on October 20, 2025, with services returning to normal operation after 15 hours.
Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage on Oct. 20 that disrupted many websites and apps, including Snapchat.