Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Robinhood and many other online services
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Source: AP
Published 4:54 AM EDT, October 20, 2025
Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday. Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.
On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services. Coinbase and Signal both said on X that they were experiencing issues related to the AWS outage.
The first signs of trouble emerged at around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time, when Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.” Later the company reported that there were “significant error rates” and that engineers were “actively working” on the problem.
Around 6 a.m. Eastern Time, the company said that it was seeing recovery across most of the affected services. “We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered,” it said, adding that it is working on a “full resolution.” AWS customers include some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations.
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Just breaking. Short article at post time. Got an AP breaking news banner and a "breaking news" break-in on my local news radio station about this in the past couple minutes.
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Published 4:54 AM EDT, October 20, 2025
An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.
On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services.
Amazon Web Services said on the site where it provides updates that services in its eastern U.S. region were disrupted and engineers were working to understand what was causing the problem.
AWS customers include some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations.
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One of my nieces is a sophomore in college this year and texted that "Canvas" (their LMS) was down and then she exclaimed that "the worlds gonna explode". 
