A common error appeared to cause a major AWS outage, bringing down platforms from Reddit to Snapchat

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

Amazon outage 'resolved' as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted

More than 1,000 apps and websites - including social media platforms like Snapchat and banks such as Lloyds and Halifax - were impacted by problems that Amazon said were at the heart of the cloud computing giant's operations in the US.

'We are very dependent on the cloud,' analyst says after AWS outage

Business 'We are very dependent on the cloud,' analyst says after AWS outage. October 20, 2025. Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was struggling to recover on Monday from a widespr

Amazon resolves AWS outage that impacted Reddit, Perplexity, and more

A status page for Amazon's cloud unit showed more than 80 of its services and features were affected early Monday.
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