When a major cloud provider stumbles, the impact now ripples across banking, media, logistics, and even basic communication in a matter of minutes. What looks like “the internet crashing” is usually a ...

On October 20th of last year, a failure occurred at the data center of Amazon Web Services (AWS), ‘US-EAST-1’ region, located in northern Virginia, U.S. This disruption cascaded, affecting countless ...

AWS CloudFront outage on July 16, 2026, knocked Canvas, Blackboard, Hugging Face, and the UK National Lottery offline for ...

Amazon Web Services reported operational issues starting Thursday night due to a "thermal issue" at a Virginia facility. The leading cloud provider's outage was tied to issues on popular trading ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sanjit Singh Dang is a California-based contributor who covers AI. I recently wrote about the widespread AWS outage. Little did I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. Only a month ago, the AWS outage sparked concerns as millions ...

When Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region experienced a multi-hour outage on October 20, 2025, much of the public attention focused on the consumer impact. More than a thousand websites and ...

Coinbase went offline for seven hours on Friday after an AWS data centre overheated in Virginia, capping a week in which the exchange cut 700 jobs and reported a 394 million dollar quarterly loss.

X experienced a widespread outage Friday morning. Problems started shortly before 10:30 a.m. ET. The site was functional again, a little more than an hour later. If you had problems with X Friday, you ...

Ah, the inevitabilities of life: death, taxes, and eating crow on the internet. The infrastructure service Cloudflare faced massive outages on Tuesday morning, cutting off access to a number of ...