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Amazon explains what caused the AWS web crash
On October 20, 2025, the digital world experienced a significant disruption when a major outage in Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) affected numerous online services. Millions of users found themselves unable to access platforms like Fortnite,
Amazon.com Inc.’s AMZN cloud computing unit has committed to investing a minimum of $5 billion in South Korea by 2031 to establish new artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. AWS Investment To Boost Billions In US GDP Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced the move at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2025 summit on Wednesday,
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Here's what experts say the Amazon Web Services outage reveals about the fragility of the cloud
Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.
A massive Amazon Web Services outage took down dozens of major websites and apps early Monday, affecting platforms like Disney+, Reddit, Lyft, and United Airlines.
Users are reporting problems with Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading many to ask if the provider is currently down. At the time of writing, there were more than 900 reports on Downdetector for Amazon Web Services. Users of AWS shared that they were facing problems with eu-west-1, eu-north-1 and CloudFront.
An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`
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Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.
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Amazon Web Services says issue that caused outage 'mitigated'
A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday disrupted major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Robinhood, and Coinbase.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffers its second major outage in just over a week, knocking a 'huge portion of the internet unusable' as 6,000+ reports flood in.