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Brace yourself (again) for cloud chaos: a major AWS outage this week exposed just how fragile the world’s internet backbone still is.
A widespread failure in Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia) on October 20 2025 temporarily knocked offline parts of Netflix, Slack, Venmo, Snapchat, Robinhood, Epic Games and several U.S. government portals. 🚨 What happened * The outage originated in the region known as US‑EAST‑1, located in Northern Virginia,