AWS Outage: Global Internet Disruption Exposes Economic Fragility and Cloud Dependence
The internet experienced a dramatic and widespread shutdown on October 20, 2025, as a critical failure within Amazon Web Services (AWS) plunged millions of users and thousands of businesses into digital darkness. The incident, originating from AWS’s colossal US-EAST-1 data center region in Northern Virginia, crippled essential services ranging from financial transactions and communication platforms…
