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Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupts Global Services for 15 Hours

10/23/2025

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On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services suffered an outage that disrupted services worldwide for 15 hours, affecting over 2,000 companies and millions of users.
The outage originated in AWS's US-East-1 region in Virginia, a hub for global internet traffic.
Snapchat, Roblox, and financial services faced major disruptions, with losses estimated in the hundreds of billions.
Experts warned that relying on a few cloud providers creates risk and urged diversification.

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On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services suffered an outage that disrupted services worldwide for 15 hours, affecting over 2,000 companies and millions of users.
The outage originated in AWS's US-East-1 region in Virginia, a hub for global internet traffic.
Snapchat, Roblox, and financial services faced major disruptions, with losses estimated in the hundreds of billions.
Experts warned that relying on a few cloud providers creates risk and urged diversification.