A massive global outage has hit important sites and disrupted their services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's largest cloud services provider, experienced a widespread outage on Monday morning, October 20, 2025, resulting in the shutdown or severe slowdown of dozens of popular platforms around the world, including Amazon, Canva, Snapchat, Fortnite, and Asana.

AWS acknowledged the issue, explaining that the outage was centered in the US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, the heart of its network, which accounts for approximately 30% of its global customers. The outage caused partial or complete disruption to millions of users in the gaming, social media, commerce, and financial services sectors.

This incident demonstrates the fragility of heavy reliance on AWS's cloud infrastructure and highlights the importance of cloud diversification strategies to avoid a complete digital service disruption in the future.

Although AWS teams are working to fix the outage, the initial financial losses are estimated to have reached millions of dollars, especially for companies that rely entirely on the cloud for their daily operations.