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flag A major AWS outage on Oct. 20, 2025, disrupted global services like Roblox, Snapchat, and banking sites due to failures in its Virginia data center.

flag A major outage on October 20, 2025, disrupted numerous global online services, including Roblox, Snapchat, Zoom, Amazon.com, and banking platforms, traced to a technical failure in Amazon Web Services' US-EAST-1 region, particularly its northern Virginia data center. flag The issue, linked to elevated error rates in AWS’s DynamoDB and DNS systems, caused widespread service disruptions, delayed support functions, and impacted critical infrastructure. flag AWS confirmed the problem and worked to resolve it, with recovery efforts underway throughout the day. flag The incident highlighted the vulnerability of digital ecosystems to failures in centralized cloud providers.

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