Internet News The Internet Outage That Took Down Several Major Websites Seems To Be Fixed Cnbc

An Amazon Outage Nearly Took Out The Whole Internet. Here’s Just How Big It Was.

The last major Amazon-related internet outage, which affected Disney amusement parks and buying tickets online, was in 2021. Chapple said these technology provider-related outages are “fairly typical” ... Read More

Amazon says it has resolved internet services outage that left websites and apps lagging around the world

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products. Read More

Amazon Web Services outage hits Snapchat, major websites. But what is an internet outage?

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage left major websites and applications without service on Monday, Oct. 20. Read More

One outage affecting millions shows vulnerability of online infrastructure

Amazon, Microsoft and Google provide most of the support for much of the world’s internet functions, meaning even minor issues for one company can quickly become more widespread and affect ... Read More

The AWS outage is over—but what caused the issues that took out half of the internet?

From productivity platforms and games to streaming and payment systems, many services built on AWS remain unreliable. This live blog tracked the outage as it progressed on October 20, 2025, ending in ... Read More

Amazon internet outage hits major websites and mobile apps such as Snapchat. Here's what we know

Some of the world's biggest apps and websites, such as Amazon, Google, Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, and Canva, were hit by a major internet outage on Monday morning. The issues began at around 9 a.m. Read More

Internet down: Many of the world’s biggest apps and websites break in hours-long outage

Many of the world’s biggest apps and websites break in hours-long outage - Snapchat to the UK tax authority were affected by the problems ... Read More

Outage at Amazon Web Services disrupts websites across the internet

Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they. Read More

AWS Outage: How Virginia Data Centers Brought Down the Internet Worldwide

The outage underscored a central trade-off of cloud computing: while it lets businesses deploy global services without maintaining vast infrastructure, it concentrates risk. A problem in a single ... Read More

Why the Internet Broke While You Were Sleeping: Amazon Web Services Outage Explained

Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the hundreds of sites and services that were impacted when AWS went down, causing a major internet blackout. Read More

AWS Outage Explained: Why the Internet Broke While You Were Sleeping

Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the 1,000-plus sites and services that were affected when Amazon Web Services went down, causing a major internet blackout. Read More