2025-10-20
11 分钟Apps and websites around the world are hit by a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services.
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It's Monday, October 20th.
I'm Caitlin McCabe for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of what's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
Internet users around the world are struggling to access their favorite apps and sites this morning as a result of a major outage at Amazon Web Services.
Sites including Facebook, Amazon, Snapchat and Roblox appear to be down early Monday,
with financial services Coinbase, Robinhood and Venmo also reporting disruptions.
The AWS infrastructure underpins millions of websites and platforms providing cloud computing services to the world's biggest companies.
Any problems with the network can have a major impact on the wider Internet and many mobile apps.
AWS said it's investigating and actively working to mitigate the issue,
which seems to stem from a group of data centers in and around Northern Virginia.
The Wall Street Journal is among several media organizations affected by the outage,
which began around 3am Eastern.
In an update around 5:30am Amazon said its systems are now recovering and that many websites and apps are coming back online.
We will bring you any updates on this developing story as and when we get them.