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Major Outages Expose Vulnerabilities in Internet Infrastructure

11/29/2025

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In October 2025, Amazon DynamoDB, a service of Amazon Web Services (AWS), faced a race condition that left the service unreachable for three hours.
In November 2025, Cloudflare, Inc. experienced a similar outage caused by a database permissions change.
Experts say these failures reveal vulnerabilities and chokepoints in internet infrastructure.
A 33 terabits-per-second Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack exploited these weaknesses and underscored inadequate defenses.

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Story summary

In October 2025, Amazon DynamoDB, a service of Amazon Web Services (AWS), faced a race condition that left the service unreachable for three hours.
In November 2025, Cloudflare, Inc. experienced a similar outage caused by a database permissions change.
Experts say these failures reveal vulnerabilities and chokepoints in internet infrastructure.
A 33 terabits-per-second Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack exploited these weaknesses and underscored inadequate defenses.