Back to Normal: AWS Outage Resolved After Causing Worldwide Disruption Amazon's Web Services has returned to normal operations after disrupting the world's internet due to an outage. International Business Times UK · Oct 21, 2025
An Amazon outage has rattled the internet. A computer scientist explains why the ‘cloud’ needs to change The world’s largest cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has experienced a major outage that has impacted thousands of organisations, including banks, financial software platforms such as Xero, and social media platforms such as Snapchat. The Conversation · Oct 21, 2025
From gigabits to terabits: fibre to fire up downloads A fibre optic internet backbone will deliver internet speeds up to six times faster as well as a multi-billion-dollar boost to Australia's economy by 2040. AAP · Oct 21, 2025
What to know about the warehouses in Virginia that power a lot of the internet An internet outage on Monday morning highlights the reliance on Amazon's cloud services The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025
Is Venmo still down? Live updates on widespread AWS outage The popular peer-to-peer payment platform Venmo went down on Monday, October 20, one of several apps taken offline amid widespread Amazon's AWS service outages. Tom’s Guide · Oct 20, 2025
Morning Mail: Albanese signs $8.5bn deal with Trump, ANZ bonuses criticised, claim Prince Andrew ‘tried to hire internet trolls’ Prime minister secures Aukus support and signs $8.5bn critical minerals deal in Washington visit The Guardian - AU · Oct 20, 2025
Internet down: Many of the world’s biggest apps and websites break in hours-long outage Snapchat to the UK tax authority were affected by the problems The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025
MPs question why key parts of IT infrastructure is hosted abroad after AWS outage Major banks, gaming platforms and HMRC were among sites affected by Amazon Web Services’ fault The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025
How the AWS outage happened — and why it's broke the internet A massive AWS outage took down parts of the internet today — from Alexa and Snapchat to Fortnite and banking apps. Here’s what really happened, and why one small glitch caused such big chaos. Tom’s Guide · Oct 20, 2025
Massive AWS outage took down the internet for several hours impacting Reddit, Fortnite, and more Amazon's Web Services triggered a massive internet outage, impacting major platforms like Reddit and Fortnite. At its peak, over 13,000 users faced disruptions, spotlighting the vulnerabilities of a digital world increasingly reliant on single cloud providers. Android Central · Oct 20, 2025
Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre, book claims Andrew hid behind Balmoral’s ‘guarded gates’ to escape court papers, accuser says in memoir Nobody’s Girl The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2025
Amazon outage: Every website knocked offline by the huge AWS outage Amazon’s cloud services went offline today, causing huge problems across the internet. TechRadar · Oct 20, 2025
"We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps Signal's privacy and security are great, but being a centralized app makes it vulnerable. Element explains to TechRadar why we do need decentralized apps more than ever. TechRadar · Oct 20, 2025
Coinbase, Robinhood down as Amazon outage briefly cripples the internet Other non-crypto companies affected include Snapchat, Hulu, and McDonald’s. Fortune · Oct 20, 2025
The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025 Why is the internet broken? How one small problem can take down the whole web The vast array of platforms, companies, websites and apps available on the internet rely on a very small number of companies, writes Andrew Griffin
The Guardian - AU · Oct 20, 2025 Interstellar’s second life: how Christopher Nolan’s most divisive film became his most loved When Nolan’s space epic was released in 2014, critics picked at the plot holes and scientists picked at the science – now, 11 years later, it’s the internet’s favourite film. Was it just ahead of its time?
International Business Times · Oct 20, 2025 Internet Services Cut For Hours By Amazon Cloud Outage Many popular internet services, from streaming platforms to messaging services and some banks, went offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's crucial cloud network.
The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2025 Prince Andrew’s team tried to hire internet trolls to hassle me, Virginia Giuffre claims in bombshell memoir The new allegations, which claim the prince and his team tried to ‘cast doubt on her credibility’, appear in a harrowing account of her life, published tomorrow
Windows Central · Oct 20, 2025 Massive AWS outage takes games offline — Fortnite, Roblox, PlayStation and Epic Games affected A major outage at Amazon Web Services has triggered global disruption across the internet, taking down online features for popular games including Fortnite, Roblox, Pokémon GO, and PlayStation Network.
Benzinga · Oct 20, 2025 Larry Ellison Says AI Needs Private Data — Palantir Says 'Told You So' When Oracle Corp's (NYSE:ORCL) Larry Ellison declared that artificial intelligence will only reach its "peak value" once models train on privately owned data, it sounded like a warning shot to the open-internet AI crowd. But for Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE:PLTR), it was validation in prime time.
Windows Central · Oct 20, 2025 Is Reddit down? AWS outages are mitigating, but the social media giant is still half-busted Amazon Web Services (AWS) server outages have affected a significant chunk of the Internet, including ongoing problems for Reddit.
We Got This Covered · Oct 20, 2025 ‘It’s all gone’: Panic as massive part of the internet goes offline, are we under cyberattack? The worst day in the internet's history?
GamesRadar · Oct 20, 2025 Fortnite, Roblox, Wordle, and other popular games down as Amazon Web Services outage sends the internet toppling Multiple games and websites are experiencing major issues
Tom’s Hardware · Oct 20, 2025 Colossal AWS outage breaks the internet — Roblox, Fortnite, Zoom, Snapchat, and beyond all crippled Amazon is tracking a massive AWS outage that has crippled large parts of the internet.
Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2025 Andrew’s ‘team’ tried to hire ‘internet trolls to hassle’ sex accuser – memoir The former duke paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Virginia Giuffre in 2022, despite insisting he had never met her.