Amazon AWS outage 20th Oct 2025

I just say that on YouTube.

As long as I can keep purchasing useless items that I have no use for, I'm happy.
Don't care about Alexas' ring.

Sorry I meant Alexa & Ring

i was surprised how much of the net they serviced
according to reports Amazon are about the biggest
and AWS is there biggest business. surprised ..

best of luck Steve ..

These things happen, even to the biggest and best. They got on it quickly and it's all but resolved. I think it's interesting to note that their AWS platform is so well regarded, even Netflix (their main streaming competition) uses it.

The issue is DNS related to AWS's DynamoDB service and yeah it's reeking havoc on a lot of SaaS services. Good reason to be multi-cloud for some added redundancy. Still it requires careful planning otherwise a company is paying big money for unused infrastructure.

Just in.

In a stunning twist that left half the internet sobbing into their Kubernetes clusters, Amazon Web Services went offline for six hours today. The outage triggered mass hysteria across startups, crypto exchanges, and that one guy still hosting his blog on EC2. Witnesses claim Jeff Bezos was spotted emerging from a pyramid-shaped bunker in Nevada, muttering something about “the prophecy” and clutching a golden Alexa. Meanwhile, engineers at Amazon HQ were last seen sacrificing a Raspberry Pi to appease the cloud gods.

As Slack messages failed to send and GitHub commits vanished into the void, conspiracy theorists sprang into action. Illuminati forums lit up with claims that the outage was a coordinated test of global dependency. One user posted, “AWS is the spine of the Matrix. They pulled the plug to recalibrate reality.” Another theorized that Bezos was simply rebooting the simulation to install a patch labeled “Prime Consciousness v2.0.” Elon Musk tweeted a single emoji: .

By hour five, desperate developers began forming AWS support groups in candlelit basements, chanting “us-east-1” in unison. Bezos, now wearing a monocle and riding a Segway shaped like a dollar sign, declared from his mountaintop lair, “Let this be a lesson: never put all your eggs in one cloud.” The outage ended mysteriously after a goat was seen wandering into a data center. Coincidence? The Illuminati declined to comment.

Meanwhile, over at Microsoft HQ, Azure engineers were popping champagne and high-fiving Clippy, who had been resurrected as a hologram for the occasion. Satya Nadella reportedly tried to keep things humble, but couldn’t resist tweeting “Feeling cloudy .” Bezos, sipping espresso from a mug labeled “Uptime is a mindset,” was last seen muttering, “This isn’t over,” before vanishing into a puff of quantum smoke.



I’ll post a source as soon as I have finished creating the mock tech website.

Evidently, their tracking is still messed up. My package left on it's 120 mile journey to the local distribution hub 18 hours ago and has yet to arrive, while it's still marked as arriving today (going on 7pm local time).

This outage prevented the bank I work for from sending millions of dollars in wire transfers. I had to chuckle when the news was reporting that it disrupted Snapchat. It disrupted a lot more than that.

PBzeer said:

Evidently, their tracking is still messed up. My package left on it's 120 mile journey to the local distribution hub 18 hours ago and has yet to arrive, while it's still marked as arriving today (going on 7pm local time).

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I dislike it when that happens. A courtesy email saying “Sorry we ran out of time” Or “Our driver is drunk” would be most appreciated.

antspants said:

I dislike it when that happens. A courtesy email saying “Sorry we ran out of time” Or “Our driver is drunk” would be most appreciated.

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Finally, tracking says "Delayed in transit", then an hour later, says it again. Customer Service side is still in shambles, but at least there's no problem buying stuff

PBzeer said:

Finally, tracking says "Delayed in transit", then an hour later, says it again. Customer Service side is still in shambles, but at least there's no problem buying stuff

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Most likely all AI and delivery app driven

Yep, Amazon took a big crap Sunday... and if everyone uses the same servers, and they are critical function then we will all be in the stone ago... poor planning by all. Satellites get wacked by meteors and good by modern times... air travel, shipping, banking, food, weapons... Steam gaming... Porn... it could all go bad..

I noticed my Echo and Firestick devices stopped working

When a washing machine can take down the internet, IT should reevaluate usage and restrictions of IoT.

ZDNet story on what happened

Coincidence?...

A Guy

I experienced it when using imdb.com, it wouldn't give answers when I searched for some movie

Hi folks
I discovered the cause of the outage.

I was testing one of those Chinese artificial Xmas trees with the variable LED display which gives changing colours etc. Obviously the Chinese chip that controls the function had an implant in it so it could connect to the internet and then it could wreak its world wide havoc.

Beware if you buy any of these types of goods -- you never know these days !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi folks
I discovered the cause of the outage.

I was testing one of those Chinese artificial Xmas trees with the variable LED display which gives changing colours etc. Obviously the Chinese chip that controls the function had an implant in it so it could connect to the internet and then it could wreak its world wide havoc.

Beware if you buy any of these types of goods -- you never know these days !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

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Are you saying that a chip that was in an artificial Christmas tree you bought, caused the 8 hours Amazon (AWS) outage.?
You'll be hearing from my lawyer.