(THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down ...

Amazon Web Services or AWS servers went down on October 20, 2025. This was largely due to a DNS Resolution error, which caused an outage for many dependent websites, platforms, applications, and more.

Amazon Web Services servers remain down 10 hours after the outage (Image via Amazon) Major platforms such as Snapchat, Venmo, Signal, and games such as Roblox and Fortnite experienced an outage due to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) When millions of people ...

Amazon Web Services, hosted in data centers like this one in Virginia, supports thousands of websites, apps and online services – but not during its recent DNS outage. Nathan Howard/Getty Images When ...