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AWS Outage 2025 — The Day the Cloud Crashed and America Panicked

When the internet breaks, so does modern life. On an otherwise ordinary Tuesday morning in October 2025, millions of Americans suddenly saw familiar errors—“503 Service Unavailable” and “Connection Timed Out.” Within minutes, the words “AWS outage” were trending nationwide. The digital nervous system of the United States—banking apps, news sites, smart homes, even hospital dashboards—froze in collective paralysis.