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Global Outage Hits Major Platforms, Exposes Cloud Risks

10/20/2025

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On October 20, 2025, a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage disrupted Snapchat, Roblox, Coinbase, and other platforms worldwide.
The outage began around 3:11 a.m. ET in the US-East-1 region, with rising error rates and latencies, especially in DynamoDB.
By 7:15 a.m. ET, AWS said the issue was fully mitigated, though some services still faced throttling.
The outage highlighted cloud-dependency risks, as millions worldwide reported access problems on DownDetector.

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Story summary

On October 20, 2025, a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage disrupted Snapchat, Roblox, Coinbase, and other platforms worldwide.
The outage began around 3:11 a.m. ET in the US-East-1 region, with rising error rates and latencies, especially in DynamoDB.
By 7:15 a.m. ET, AWS said the issue was fully mitigated, though some services still faced throttling.
The outage highlighted cloud-dependency risks, as millions worldwide reported access problems on DownDetector.