Mastodawn

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes https://arstechni.ca/eHTv #amazonoutage #Programming #Amazon #AWS #AI

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Ars Technica

Ars Technica News Oct 21

Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions https://arstechni.ca/Auws #AmazonWebServices #amazonoutage #awsoutage #Policy #Amazon #AWS

Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions

Amazon’s outage is over. But backlash over billions in losses has just started.

Ars Technica

Simon Zerafa (Status:

😊)Oct 21

Dave Plumber has an analysis of yesterday's Amazon infrastructure issues and what Devs can do to mitigate these types of issues 🙂

https://youtu.be/KFvhpt8FN18 [16' 32"]

#AmazonOutage #BetterDesign #Resilience #Redundancy #Coding

Why the Web was Down Today - Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer

YouTube

PPC Land Oct 21

Amazon outage breaks the internet: Snapchat, Fortnite, banks go dark: A single technical failure at Amazon Web Services knocked out 142 platforms for 15 hours, affecting millions of users and costing businesses billions in lost revenue on October 19-20, 2025. https://ppc.land/amazon-outage-breaks-the-internet-snapchat-fortnite-banks-go-dark/ #AmazonOutage #SnapchatDown #FortniteDown #InternetBlackout #AWSFailure

Amazon outage breaks the internet: Snapchat, Fortnite, banks go dark

A single technical failure at Amazon Web Services knocked out 142 platforms for 15 hours, affecting millions of users and costing businesses billions in lost revenue on October 19-20, 2025.

PPC Land

Esparta

Oct 20

Notification from Heroku in my inbox

dozens of
> Delayed Notification: Potential service issue on your ______ add-on

Things I can do something about: none

#AmazonOutage #Heroku

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Oct 20

#Amazonoutage breaks much of the #internet

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/amazon-dns-outage-breaks-much-of-the-internet/

Amazon outage breaks much of the internet | TechCrunch

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

TechCrunch

Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News Oct 20

(24) Amazon’s cloud services hit by hours-long global outage • FRANCE 24 English – YouTube

A global outage hit Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday, disrupting platforms like Amazon Prime, Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and Duolingo. The issue, caused by increased error rates, took about three hours to mostly resolve, though some services remained affected. Downdetector also reported disruptions to Reddit, Disney+, Signal, Delta Air Lines, and several European mobile operators, banks, WhatsApp, and Tinder.
#Amazon #Tech #AmazonOutage

#Amazon #AmazonOutage #Tech