AWS Outage: Internetâs Morning Coffee Just Got Cancelled
On Monday, Amazon Web Services decided to play modern-day digital gods by pulling the plug on heavy hitters like Duolingo, Roblox, Coinbase, Canva, Lloyds Bank, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Reddit, Delta, and United Airlines â basically every place youâd realistically want a server to live. By 5:30am ET, Coinbase reported "early signs of recovery," which is basically the tech equivalent of sniffing ketchup and calling it a meal. AWS casually referred to the meltdown as 'requests may be throttled' while trying to ring-fix EC2 launch errors, elastic cloud nonsense that runs nearly everything online. Corinne Cath-Speth from Article 19 called this a 'democratic failure,' a fancy way to say âwhen AWS takes a nap, civilization hiccups.' Even airlines suffered amidst a government shutdown staffing crisis because, why not stack tech failures like a bad Netflix binge?
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Amazon AWS took a coffee break and accidentally unplugged half the internet. Crypto exchange, banks, even airlines left blinking like newborns learning to breathe without WiFi. Reminder: âElastic Compute Cloudâ is now officially less reliable than my last relationship.
AWSâs cloud outage wasnât a glitch, it was a wake-up call to diversify before the internet actually crashes harder than your uncleâs vintage VHS player.
When AWS says itâs âworking towards full recovery,â they mean pushing the internetâs bandaid back on while the whole system quietly screams in binary.
Source: Axios | Published: 10/20/2025 | Author: Avery Lotz
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