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AWS (Amazon Web Services) suffered a global outage on the morning of monday, october 20, 2025, disrupting dozens of digital services and platforms around the world, generating major repercussions for the international technology ecosystem.
Scope and Impact of the Outage
The failure originated in the US-East-1 cluster in Virginia, United States, one of AWS’s most critical regions, causing an outage in key cloud services and amplifying the impact globally. Popular platforms such as Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo, Zoom, Signal, Robinhood, Canva, Coinbase, and even Amazon’s main portal experienced widespread errors, inaccessibility, disconnections, and high latency for several hours.
Downdetector and other international monitors reported tens of thousands of simultaneous incidents, while banks, airlines, e-commerce sites, and financial services providers—including Lloyds Bank in the UK and Venmo—also acknowledged impacts to their digital operations.
Technical details and recovery
Amazon officially reported “high error rates and latencies” in services such as DynamoDB and EC2. The root of the problem was a failure in DynamoDB’s DNS resolution, which caused thousands of AWS-dependent applications to suffer immediate outages. Within hours of the incident, AWS technical teams made progress in recovery and updated that most services were in the process of returning to normal; however, full restoration took time, and some requests were still limited due to handling the pending request.
International Analysis of the Incident
International media outlets such as Reuters, CNBC, The Guardian, CNN, and BBC highlighted how global dependence on AWS undermines the resilience of the modern internet and highlights the risk of technological concentration in a few hands. Experts warn that the centralized model means that events like this can simultaneously paralyze operations in various economic sectors, from banking and retail to communication platforms and video games.
Monday’s AWS outage is considered one of the most severe since the CrowdStrike incident in 2024, reminding governments, businesses, and users of the need to strengthen digital resilience and diversify technological infrastructure globally.
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