Poll: Were you affected by Oct 20th Amazon's AWS outage?
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Oct 22, 2025

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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Ureno
Local time: 22:02
Mwanachama(2007)
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No Oct 22, 2025

I only found out about it from the news.

Liena V.
Alex Lichanow
Ana Cravidao
Cecília Alves
Maria Laura Curzi
Amaya Watellet
Helena Chavarria
 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Ujerumani
Local time: 23:02
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No Oct 22, 2025

I only found out in the news. I am not much of a cloud user anyway. The only thing that could have bothered me was the accompanying Signal outage, but I just didn't receive any messages during that time.

 
WolfgangS
WolfgangS
Ufaransa
Local time: 23:02
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No idea Oct 22, 2025

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Don't even know in which way I could have been affected.


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IrinaN (X)
IrinaN (X)
Marekani
Local time: 16:02
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AWS what? Oct 22, 2025

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Mario Chávez
Mario Chávez
Marekani
Local time: 17:02
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Amazon's AWS serves +35% of the internet Oct 22, 2025

From CNN, “AWS serves millions of customers, from retailers and restaurants to financial services firms and government agencies; it holds around 37% of the cloud computing market, according to Gartner. Together with Microsoft and Google, the three companies service around 70% of the market.”

I'm not defending Amazon or AWS, but those of us in the USA who shop online at Amazon depend on AWS to function properly. The responsible installation for the Monday failure is located in No
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From CNN, “AWS serves millions of customers, from retailers and restaurants to financial services firms and government agencies; it holds around 37% of the cloud computing market, according to Gartner. Together with Microsoft and Google, the three companies service around 70% of the market.”

I'm not defending Amazon or AWS, but those of us in the USA who shop online at Amazon depend on AWS to function properly. The responsible installation for the Monday failure is located in Northern Virginia and is not the first time it fails.

Some of my purchases and returns were pushed back 1-2 days, not a huge impact.


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Gregor Trebec
Gregor Trebec
Slovena
Local time: 23:02
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what? Oct 22, 2025

Is that something to eat?

 


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