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Global Internet Disruption as Amazon Web Services Cloud Outage Hits Thousands of Platforms
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, October 20, 2025, the internet’s backbone wobbled. A significant outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted everything from social‑media apps and games to banks and government portals. Many users woke to find that their usual apps were simply not working. The fault emerged in AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 region in northern Virginia. That region…

