AWS Outage Explained: One Bug, Millions Offline

Code Brew Labs · Beginner ·☁️ DevOps & Cloud ·8mo ago

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Imagine you’re streaming Netflix, ordering food, or gaming and suddenly nothing works. That was the world on October 20, 2025, when AWS suffered a massive outage. A tiny glitch in a DNS update cascaded through AWS’s infrastructure, taking down apps like Snapchat, Roblox, and Fortnite and stopping global services in their tracks. It’s one of the worst internet disruptions ever all because of a code. #shorts #shortsfeed #shortsvideo #aws #awsoutage #outage #amazon

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Imagine you’re streaming Netflix, ordering food, or gaming and suddenly nothing works. That was the world on October 20, 2025, when AWS suffered a massive outage. A tiny glitch in a DNS update cascaded through AWS’s infrastructure, taking down apps like Snapchat, Roblox, and Fortnite and stopping global services in their tracks. It’s one of the worst internet disruptions ever all because of a code. #shorts #shortsfeed #shortsvideo #aws #awsoutage #outage #amazon

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