Did Amazon Crash the Internet?

About this episode

The episode discusses a significant outage in Amazon's web server business that affected numerous major online services.

Send us Fan Mail Did Amazon’s web servers just take out a massive chunk of the internet? Yes, and this isn’t an exaggeration. On October 20, 2025 a major outage in Amazon’s web server business (known as “AWS”), caused nearly every major online service to fail or malfunction. Major names like Snapchat, Signal, WhatsApp, Lloyds of London, the Bank of Scotland, Venmo, Coinbase, Roblox, Fortnite, Hulu and Spotify (to name just a few) all reportedly experienced major malfunctions and d...

People in this episode

Host: Zach McCormick

Topics covered

• Amazon outage
• internet disruption
• web services
• AWS
• online services failure

Keywords

• Amazon
• AWS
• internet outage
• online services
• web servers
• malfunctions
• October 20, 2025

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, AWS, Snapchat, Signal, WhatsApp, Lloyds of London, Bank of Scotland, Venmo, Coinbase, Roblox

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