{"id":2500953,"date":"2025-10-20T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/numerous-major-websites-knocked-offline-by-cloud-computing-outage\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:33:06","slug":"numerous-major-websites-knocked-offline-by-cloud-computing-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/numerous-major-websites-knocked-offline-by-cloud-computing-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous Major Websites Knocked Offline by Cloud Computing Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnumerous-major-websites-knocked-offline-by-cloud-computing-outage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2500953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Early Monday morning,an outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-from-peru-charged-over-150-fake-bomb-calls-to-us-schools-institutions\/\" title=\"Peruvian man faces charges for 150+ fake bomb calls to US schools, institutions.\">caused widespread disruptions<\/a> across <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >numerous popular websites adn apps<\/a>,including Amazon,Venmo,Ring,Slack,WhatsApp,Coinbase,Lloyds Bank,and others.The issues began around 2:40 a.m. Eastern Time, with Amazon&#8217;s Health Dashboard reporting operational problems in the US-EAST-1 (North Virginia) region, affecting multiple AWS services.<\/p>\n<p>The outage also impacted critical infrastructure such as airports, with LaGuardia Airport experiencing check-in and kiosk system failures, though security lines remained unaffected.the encrypted messaging app Signal confirmed its service was down for some users due to the AWS issues.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-maggie-haberman-attacks-president-trump-over-white-house-reporters-having-to-work-early-on-christmas-eve\/\" title=\"NY Times\u2019 Maggie Haberman Attacks President Trump Over White House Reporters Having to Work Early on Christmas Eve\">early morning<\/a>, Amazon started seeing signs of recovery, and most services were reported to be operating normally by mid-morning. Experts noted the severity of the outage, emphasizing AWS&#8217;s central role in internet infrastructure, as many businesses rely on Amazon&#8217;s cloud services rather of building their own systems.<\/p>\n<p>The root cause was linked to a problem with AWS&#8217;s DynamoDB database and DNS, which temporarily made data inaccessible despite being safely stored, leading to many applications losing access to their data. This outage highlighted the heavy dependency of modern digital services and smart devices on continuous internet connectivity and centralized cloud providers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>An issue with Amazon&rsquo;s cloud computing services triggered an outage early Monday morning that hit a number of websites and apps, including Amazon, Venmo, Ring, Slack, Whatsapp, Coinbase, Lloyds Bank, Perplexity, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The issues started around 2:40 a.m. Eastern time Monday morning, when the online service Downdetector reported that Amazon Web Services was down, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/live\/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechRadar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Dashboard<\/a>&rdquo; run by Amazon showed at the time that there was an &ldquo;operational issue&rdquo; in North Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region,&rdquo; the dashboard announced at 3:11 a.m. Monday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A downtime of this scale (where us-east-1 is involved) usually happens once every few years and is the most catastrophic downtimes of all. Actual incident being tracked on AWS&rsquo; service health dashboard:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u8J99bykYb\">https:\/\/t.co\/u8J99bykYb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XM4b2owURk\">pic.twitter.com\/XM4b2owURk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ananay (@ananayarora) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ananayarora\/status\/1980179734496714933?\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\";     var ca=document.cookie.split(';');     for(var i=0; i <ca.length; i++) {         var c=ca[i];         while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c=c.substring(1,c.length); 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<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/10\/20\/business\/aws-down-internet-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> reported. &ldquo;Kiosks appeared to not work and apps were down. Airport security lines do not appear to be experiencing any technical difficulties.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Also affected was the encrypted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-immediately-goes-offensive-atlantic-releases-full-signal-chat-another-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chatting app Signal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;PSA: we are aware that Signal is down for some people,&rdquo; Signal chief executive Meredith Whittaker <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mer__edith\/status\/1980182701610348654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on X<\/a> at 4:02 a.m. Eastern. &ldquo;This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>By, 5:27 a.m. Eastern, Amazon reported &ldquo;seeing significant signs of recovery.&rdquo; By 6:35 a.m. Eastern, &ldquo;most AWS Service operations&rdquo; were working normally again, according to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Disruptions across dozens of websites appear to be easing,&rdquo; The New York Times confirmed. &ldquo;Numerous sites that had reported problems earlier on Monday were seeing fewer issues, including Slack, Snapchat, Reddit, the British government&rsquo;s website and others.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/business\/live-news\/amazon-tech-outage-10-20-25-intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>, TechRadar editor Lance Ulanoff said that the AWS outage hit so many sites and services because AWS &ldquo;sits in the middle of everything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The AWS outage says more about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24AMZN&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$AMZN<\/a> strength than weakness.<\/p>\n<p>2 hours offline &amp; most of internet stopped working. That&rsquo;s how much of the world runs on their infrastructure. Same story with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24CRWD&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$CRWD<\/a> when a &lt;$100B company briefly stopped the world from moving<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s real dependency.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shay Boloor (@StockSavvyShay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StockSavvyShay\/status\/1980248959051252130?\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ulanoff explained to the network that AWS offers businesses the opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-facing-potential-massive-fine-from-u-k-watchdog-over-failure-to-protect-childrens-privacy\/\" title=\"TikTok Facing Potential Massive Fine From U.K. Watchdog Over Failure To Protect Children\u2019s Privacy\">rent online services<\/a> they need instead of building out the services themselves, the latter of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-study-electric-vehicles-cost-charge-filling-car-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">costs much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s like: &lsquo;Why build the house if you&rsquo;re just going to live in it?&rsquo;&rdquo; he asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n<p>He added that millions of devices, particularly smart home devices, aren&rsquo;t designed to work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-cuba-suffers-another-massive-power-outage-leaving-millions-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">without Internet access<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They just don&rsquo;t work without the internet,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re not designed that way. 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