What caused Amazon Web Services to go down? An expert explains

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Amazon Web Services was down on Oct. 20, 2025. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University From Reddit and Snapchat to Delta and Zoom, more than a thousand websites around the globe were knocked offline early Monday—and continued to have problems into the afternoon—after a major outage at Amazon Web Services, the single larg ...