Amazon Web Services (AWS), a major global cloud infrastructure provider, is experiencing a significant operational outage on October 20, 2025. The disruption, which appears to stem from the US-EAST-1 region, has impacted numerous high-profile online services that rely on its cloud platform.
While the widespread nature of the outage has led to public speculation about a potential cyber attack, cybersecurity experts and initial reports from Amazon indicate the cause is highly likely an internal operational error or technical fault, not a malicious external attack. No threat actor has been verifiably linked to the incident.
The incident is an operational outage, not a data breach. The primary impact is a widespread loss of service availability. According to outage tracker data, the extensive list of impacted services includes:
- Amazon
- Amazon Alexa
- Amazon Music
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AT&T
- Blink Security
- Canva
- Chime
- Clash Royale
- Coinbase
- Dead By Daylight
- Disney+
- Epic Games Store
- FanDuel
- Fortnite
- Hulu
- IMDb
- Instructure
- Life360
- Lyft
- Max
- McDonald’s App
- My Fitness Pal
- Peloton
- PlayStation Network
- Prime Video
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Ring
- Robinhood
- Roblox
- Rocket League
- Roku
- Signal
- Snapchat
- Spectrum
- Steam
- T-Mobile
- The New York Times
- Truist
- United Airlines
- Venmo
- Verizon
- VR Chat
- Whatnot
- Xfinity
