Monday 20/October/2025 – 04:09 PM
On Monday morning, the world witnessed an outage in AWS services, or as it is known as Amazon Web Services, which affected a large group of websites and other electronic applications, such as Snapchat, Zoom, Slack, and other related services, but the company announced a short while ago that its services had returned to operating normally, after the basic technical solution, in which about 2,000 reports were submitted within the United States of America only, due to the interruption of AWS Amazon services for several continuous hours.
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AWS outage affects the world’s internet
The company mentioned the reasons for the outage of AWS Amazon services this morning in an official statement, which affected the Internet in the world, as it explained that it observed high error rates and significant delays in response, at the level of several services within the US-EAST-1 operational area in the US state of Virginia.
It is one of the most vital areas in Amazon’s server system, as it hosts a huge number of infrastructures that technology, financial, and entertainment services companies around the world rely on. The company said: Upon discovering the problem, the company’s engineers began working intensively to contain it and understand the root causes of the malfunction, stressing that its team is working to determine the root cause of Amazon’s malfunction and ensure that the accident will not be repeated in the future.
Snapchat was affected by the AWS outage
Snapchat was affected by the outage of AWS Amazon services this morning. If users noticed, access to their personal accounts failed from the beginning, while others faced problems related to the inability to communicate with friends via the website. It later became clear that the main reason for this outage was due to the outage of Amazon Web Services services from its main center, in the United States of America. The company is expected to announce in the coming hours all the details of the outage.
