AWS East Coast Crash: Zoom Crying, Venmo Frozen, Internet Panic
On March 11, 2024, Amazon Web Services' East Coast region pulled the ultimate ghost move, knocking out Zoom, Venmo, WhatsApp, and moreāleaving 11 million souls offline at 12:45 pm EST. The outage, biggest this year, made the internet's backbone look like last year's iPhone stuck on loading. Corey Quinn from Duckbill whispered about the 'centralization risk' like itās the internet's flu ā one cough and everyoneās down. Despite Amazon scrambling to patch it, tons of sites stayed in digital limbo, proving even mega-cloud giants have Achillesā heels. Mike Chapple recalled 2021ās disaster that crashed Disney parks and Adele ticket salesāa real party foul. Moral? The cloud isnāt fluffy, itās just one brittle twig waiting to snap.
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AWS East Coast outage turned Zoom meetings into ghost parties, Venmo into digital ice, and the internet into a glitchy horror show. Who knew the entire online world was basically running on one overworked server chunk?
Imagine relying on three megaclouds to run the entire internet and then watching the whole thing crack like a stale cookie when one hiccups. Thatās AWS East Coast doing the cha-cha on your social life.
AWS just invented the online ghost town experience. Zoom froze, Venmo froze, even WhatsApp threw a tantrum. Meanwhile, cloud economists explain 'centralization risk' like it's a suspense thriller.
Source: Axios | Published: 10/21/2025 | Author: Emily Peck
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