The Great AWS Outage of 2025 — When the Internet’s Backbone Went Dark
When Amazon Web Services suddenly goes down, the entire internet feels it. On October 20, 2025, users around the world woke up to find their favorite apps failing to load, streaming services freezing, and websites timing out. Within minutes, the phrase “AWS outage” began trending on Google, X, and Reddit, as millions tried to figure out what had just happened to the backbone of the modern web.
