A malfunction in amazon’s northern virginia data center triggered dns failures that took down aws on october 20, 2025, disrupting major companies and services worldwide A glitch at an amazon web services (aws) data centre in the us left millions around the world unable to access half the internet, but how exactly did it cause the widespread disruption? The outage at amazon services has impacted over 1,000 companies and affected millions of internet users. Several employees told reuters they had received emails on thursday morning that told them they had been terminated and their computers were being deactivated While reuters could not determine the. At about 07:11 gmt, amazon’s cloud service experienced a major outage, meaning some of its systems stopped working, which disrupted many popular apps and websites, including banks, gaming.
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