Technology · 20 October 2025
Global internet hit as Amazon Web Services suffers major outage, knocking out Snapchat, Ring and more
A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) originating in the US-East-1 region caused major disruptions to dozens of apps and sites—including Snapchat, Duolingo, Signal, Fortnite and Ring—after engineers reported increased error rates and latencies.  AWS said recovery is underway but the incident underscores how reliant the Internet is on a small number of cloud providers. 
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