Amazon’s $2.5 Billion Cloud Outage: How an AI Glitch Broke the Internet – Again
Amazon Web Services suffered a 16-hour outage in late October 2025, disrupting over 2,500 companies and major apps including Fortnite, Snapchat, and Coinbase. Amazon traced the incident to a bug in automated DNS management in its US-East-1 region, which triggered cascading failures. Engineers restored service after manual intervention. The outage caused an estimated $2.5 billion in global losses.