⚡ An AWS Earthquake Has Given the Internet a Very Bad Day A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) — one of the internet’s largest cloud providers — disrupted websites, apps, and smart devices worldwide today. The failure reportedly began in the US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia) and caused cascading DNS and database errors that took down platforms from finance to gaming. Experts say the event highlights how fragile the web can be when so much depends on a few cloud giants. Businesses across industries are re-evaluating redundancy, disaster recovery, and cloud diversification strategies to prevent total shutdowns in the future. #AWS #Outage #CloudComputing #InternetDown #TechNews #CyberResilience #BETTRNewswire https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-alexa-ring-snapchat-fortnite-down-october-2025