The Cloud is Falling: AWS Outage and Why it Matters
What Happened? On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage around 3:00 a.m. Eastern. General service was restored by 3:30 p.m., though some services were still degraded. The outage affected AWS’s US-EAST-1 region, impacting thousands of websites and applications such as airlines, social media, gaming, financial services and Amazon’s own services. […]