Amazon outage: Every website knocked offline by the huge AWS outage

Date:
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:59:17 +0000

Description:
Amazons cloud services went offline today, causing huge problems across the internet.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Amazons AWS cloud service suffered an outage today That caused a cascade of websites to go offline or slow to a crawl The worst appears to be over, but many sites are still affected

If youve felt that the internet is unusually sluggish today or noticed that some of your favorite websites just plain arent working youre not going mad. Theres been a huge outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS), and since huge numbers of websites are hosted and powered by this cloud platform, its caused havoc around the web.

Everything from Reddit and Roblox to Snapchat and Slack have been affected, not to mention all of Amazons own services as we noted in our live blog , around 1,000 websites are expected to experience some sort of difficulty. The damage has been extensive and has highlighted how much of the web is reliant on this one point of failure.

If youve been wondering whether youll be able to access your regular sites or arent sure why that page youve visited has slowed to a crawl, youre in the right place. Weve been checking Downdetector and have put together a list of all the major websites impacted by the AWS outage. Just check below to see whats not working properly. Adobe Creative Cloud Ally Amazon (including Alexa and Prime Video) Apple Music Asana AT&T Availity Blackboard Blink Security Boost Mobile Chime Classlink Coinbase CollegeBoard Coursera Dead By Daylight Delta Air Lines Duolingo Epic Games Store Fanduel Fetch Fortnite GoDaddy GrubHub HBO Max Hinge Hulu IMDb InstaCart Instructure League of Legends Life 360 Lyft McDonalds app Microsoft Office Microsoft Teams My Fitness Pal Navy Federal Credit Union New York Times Office 365 Outlook Pinterest PlayStation Network Pokmon Go Reddit Ring Robinhood Roblox Roku Signal Slack Smartsheet Snapchat Square Starbucks Steam Strava T-Mobile Tidal Trello Truist Ubisoft Connect Venmo Verizon VR Chat Whatnot Wordle Xbox Xero Zillow Zoom

Thats a lot of massive websites, indicating how widespread the problems are. All in all, its been a bad day for the internet.

Fortunately, things have started to improve, with many websites recovering at least partially from the worst of the crisis. But the issues have not passed entirely, so you can expect lethargic load times and extensive
inaccessibility for some time to come.

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