Recent outages at Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) and Amazon’s AWS (NASDAQ: AMZN) briefly disrupted large portions of the internet, highlighting structural weaknesses in core web infrastructure. Congressional ...

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Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites, including X, Spotify and OpenAI. The company said a crash in a software system was to blame. By Victor Mather Cloudflare, ...

UPDATE Tuesday, 1:41 p.m. ET: With Amazon's AWS issues fully resolved, the online world was left to parse through the postmortem on Tuesday. The modern internet is vast but delicate. As many news ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced plans to build a subsea internet cable that will stretch from Maryland to County Cork, Ireland. The cable, which is called Fastnet, is currently in the design ...

AWS may have nearly brought down the internet with its global outage a few days ago, but you wouldn’t know that from Amazon’s announcement from its Q3 2025 numbers yesterday. That worldwide ...

Amazon Web Services faced a brief wave of outage reports Wednesday, though the cloud giant said there were no such issues. User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern ...

Nothing reminds us of just how dependent we are on the internet than when your favorite app or website is broken. This was the case on October 19, 2025, when users experienced what became a worldwide ...

Whenever we see a major internet outage like this past week's multi-billion dollar Amazon Web Services debacle, I like to come into work and crack wise: "Bumped into a server rack with my big ass and ...

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When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras.

Unless you’ve been on a “digital cleanse” this week, you know that Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major outage at the start of the week. You know this because apps and sites you use were down.