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Massive AWS Outage Disrupts Amazon, Venmo, Snapchat, and Other Apps in the US
On Monday, thousands of users reported problems with several Amazon services. Platforms like AWS, Prime Video, and Alexa were affected. Amazon's cloud service was down in many parts of the US, impacting other websites as well.
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“Massive AWS Outage Disrupts Amazon, Venmo, Snapchat, and Other Apps in the US”
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20 Oct 2025
Thousands of US users reported on Monday that various Amazon online services failed abruptly. Downdetector reported that multiple services, such as Amazon.com, Prime Video, and Alexa, were down.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) gave an update on its status page: "We can confirm increased error rates and latency for several services in the US-EAST-1 region." Thousands of websites and applications were affected by this technical glitch.
The outage in Amazon's cloud service was also felt on platforms like Robinhood, Snapchat, Perplexity, and PayPal's Venmo. All of these apps informed their users of a temporary issue.
