Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Amazon Web Services is starting to get back up and running after a massive global outage that affected multiple apps.

Amazon's cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is recovering early Monday morning following an outage that caused connectivity issues for companies and disrupted services for popular websites and apps. Among those impacted were video game ...

A major AWS outage appeared to impact many online services, including Amazon, Snapchat, Venmo, Reddit, and Perplexity. AWS said it had mitigated the underlying issue and its services were showing "significant signs of recovery." The issue was marked as ...

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is causing widespread issues for numerous websites and services. The problems are primarily concentrated in the U.S. East region, according to DownDetector.com. Major companies like Verizon, Reddit, and Delta Airlines ...

Amazon Web Services, which suffered a major outage, is the leading provider of cloud infrastructure technology, accounting for about a third of the market. By Monday evening, the company said "all AWS services returned to normal operations." Downdetector ...

On October 20, 2025, the internet suffered a massive jolt when Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a wide-ranging outage that knocked thousands of websites and popular apps offline. More than 4 million users reported issues through outage tracker ...