Topic: affected services

  • Snapchat's Massive AWS Outage: A Live Recap

    Snapchat's Massive AWS Outage: A Live Recap

    A major AWS outage on October 20, 2025, caused widespread downtime for numerous online services, including Snapchat, highlighting the digital world's heavy reliance on a few cloud providers. Snapchat experienced a significant disruption, with over 22,000 user complaints at its peak, as the app fa...

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  • AWS Outage: Keeper Security CEO Darren Guccione Explains the Impact

    AWS Outage: Keeper Security CEO Darren Guccione Explains the Impact

    The recent AWS outage highlighted that operational resilience requires preparing for both cyber threats and technical infrastructure failures, not just security breaches. The disruption impacted a wide range of services, including Slack, Zoom, and gaming platforms, due to their reliance on AWS, w...

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  • How a Single Point of Failure Caused the Massive Amazon Outage

    How a Single Point of Failure Caused the Massive Amazon Outage

    A massive global disruption of Amazon Web Services was caused by a single point of failure in its cloud infrastructure, leading to widespread service interruptions for millions of users. The outage lasted over 15 hours and generated more than 17 million problem reports, affecting thousands of org...

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