AWS outage
AWS Outage Disrupts Smart Mattress Users' Sleep: How Amazon's Cloud Failure Affected Connected Devices
Oct 23, 2025 09:17 pm CST
An Amazon Web Services outage left Eight Sleep's smart mattress users experiencing uncomfortable nights with overheated and immobilized mattress covers. The incident highlights the growing dependence of everyday devices on cloud infrastructure, as numerous internet services including streaming platforms and applications were simultaneously affected across the United States.
AWS Outage Reveals Critical Vulnerabilities in Cloud Computing: Why Decentralization is Essential
Oct 21, 2025 03:50 pm CST
A major AWS outage has affected thousands of organizations globally, highlighting the risks of over-reliance on centralized cloud computing. This analysis examines why the dominance of just three providers creates significant vulnerabilities, explores the problems of vendor lock-in and regulatory concerns, and offers solutions through multi-cloud and edge computing approaches that can enhance resilience for businesses dependent on cloud services.
Global AWS Outage Disrupts Major Websites and Apps Including Fortnite, Snapchat, and Lyft
Oct 20, 2025 05:12 pm CST
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS experienced a major outage affecting the US-EAST-1 Region, causing widespread disruption to popular platforms including Fortnite, Snapchat, Perplexity, Coinbase, and Lyft. The service interruption impacted numerous websites, apps, and services worldwide that rely on AWS cloud infrastructure, demonstrating the far-reaching consequences of cloud service failures on the digital ecosystem.