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

Amazon suffered a massive AWS outage on October 20, 2025, with services returning to normal operation after 15 hours.

"Told my manager last week not to put me on call during Diwali. I’ll not be able to handle all alone. His words were, ‘Relax, nothing ever happens this time of the year,’" the techie wrote.

Amazon Web Services experienced experiencing a huge global outage. While a fix was attempted, it seemed to have knocked out ...

Amazon Web Services had a big outage on Monday, October 20, that affected millions of internet users and services around the ...

Several websites were down Monday, Oct. 20 as Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider, experienced an outage.

AWS engineers said that most systems are becoming stable again, but some minor slowdowns might continue for a while.

Maybe we rely on Amazon Web Services a little too much. Thousands of sites, apps, and services went dark Monday morning. Here's why.

AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?