Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Airbnb and online services worldwide

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Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Airbnb and online services worldwide  The global outage at Amazon Web Services affected dozens of major online operations, including some of Amazon's own websites and apps.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/10/20/amazon-cloud-computing-outage-disrupts-snapchat-airbnb-and-online-services-worldwide  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:01Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption on Monday because of a problem

00:06with Amazon's cloud computing service in the United States.

00:09The outage at Amazon Web Services affected dozens of major online operations, including

00:15social media apps Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games, but also Airbnb and

00:20several banks in the United Kingdom.

00:22Some of Amazon's own services were also affected, like its Ring doorbell cameras and its streaming

00:27platform Prime Video.

00:29Amazon's reported failures throughout the day on Down Detector, a website that tracks

00:33online outages.

00:35About three hours after the disruption began on Monday morning, Amazon Web Services said

00:39it was starting to recover from the problem.

00:42AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to many government departments,

00:47universities and businesses.

00:48The company said Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to their domain name system.

00:53This mechanism converts web addresses into IP addresses so that websites and apps can

00:59load on devices connected to the Internet.

01:01Cybersecurity experts said the disruption highlighted the world's reliance on a handful of cloud

01:06services for its Internet usage.

01:09This is not the first time that issues with Amazon's key services have caused widespread disruptions.

01:13Many popular Internet operations were down after a brief breakdown in 2023, and AWS's longest

01:20outage in recent history occurred in late 2021 and lasted more than five hours.

01:25But Amazon's rivals are not immune to these types of challenges either.

01:28In July 2024, an outage affecting Microsoft Windows computers disrupted airports, hospitals and organizations

01:35around the world.

01:36About 8.5 million systems crashed and could not be restarted.

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