Forbes

AWS Outage Latest—New Analysis Explains What Went Wrong And Why

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services has explained what went wrong to cause the major ...
Forbes

AWS Outage—What Happened And What To Do Next

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services is starting to get back up and running after a ...
Network World

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers

DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers. Monday got ...
GIGAZINE

It turns out that the cause of the large-scale AWS outage was a design flaw hidden in the 'DNS management system'

On October 20, 2025 (Japan time), a large-scale service outage occurred in the Amazon Web Services North Virginia (us-east-1) region, forcing web services and applications around the world to ...
Computerworld

The AWS outage post-mortem is more revealing in what it doesn’t say

When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to ...
The Guardian

Amazon says Web Services are recovering after outage hits millions of users – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. You can read the full report here: Full story: Amazon Web Services outage hits dozens of websites and apps AWS has issued another update, saying that is continues to ...
Engadget

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

It felt like half of the internet was dealing with a severe hangover on October 20. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon ...