Amazon Apologizes After Major ‘AWS’ Outage Disrupts Internet
October 28, 2025
3:55 pm
Amazon Web Services issued an apology after a massive outage in its North Virginia data center crippled major platforms including Reddit, Snapchat, and Lloyds Bank.
Amazon has apologized to millions of users worldwide after a major outage in its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), caused widespread disruption to some of the internet’s biggest platforms.
The outage, which began in the early hours of Monday October 20, 2025, originated in AWS’s US-EAST-1 data center in North Virginia — one of the largest hubs powering global internet traffic. The disruption affected more than a thousand websites and online services, including
