13 Things to Know Right Now About the AWS Outage and Snapchat Down — Why Snapchat, Ring, Reddit and Hundreds of Apps Went Dark
AWS Outage: On Oct 20, 2025 a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage — traced to a DNS-related failure in the US-EAST-1 region — disrupted Snapchat, Ring, Reddit, Fortnite, Roblox, many banking/payment services, and parts of Amazon itself. Services started recovering within hours after AWS mitigation, but user reports and queued requests continued to cause … Read more