A major disruption hit Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday, October 20, 2025, causing widespread connectivity issues across the globe. The problem began shortly after midnight Pacific time, stemming from an underlying DNS issue that affected multiple services in the US-EAST-1 region. Amazon reported increased error rates and latencies, with the outage impacting everything from e-commerce to gaming platforms. By mid-morning, the company stated the issue had been mitigated, though lingering delays persisted as they addressed residual network problems. There were no signs of a cyberattack, but the event exposed vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure that powers much of the internet.

Widespread Impact on Popular Services

Dozens of well-known apps and websites faced outages, including Snapch

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