Russian hackers exploited misconfigured customer devices hosted on AWS for years, Amazon says

CJ Moses, Amazon's chief information security officer, confirmed the discovery in a December 15 analysis, describing the campaign as "a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting." ...
New York Post

Days after massive AWS outage, some users report sequel that Amazon says is false

Amazon Web Services faced a brief wave of outage reports Wednesday, though the cloud giant said there were no such issues. User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern ...
Wired

Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web

The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide swaths of the web. Monday’s meltdown illustrated the world’s ...
InfoQ

AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization

AWS has recently introduced a new centralized solution with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, designed to consolidate monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity usage across all customer accounts ...
CNET

That Massive AWS Outage Explained: Failures and Fixes Tripping Over Themselves

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor ...
CoinDesk

The Protocol: AWS Outage Halts Some Crypto Apps

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk. L1 tokens broadly underperformed in 2025 ...
CNN

You thought Monday’s internet outage was bad? Just wait

Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage — and the global disruption it caused — underscored just how reliant the internet has become on a small number of core infrastructure providers. The ramifications ...
Forbes

AWS Outage: What To Know As Amazon Says Cloud Service Is Back To Normal

More than 1,000 people were reporting connectivity issues with Amazon Web Services Tuesday morning after a day of outages plagued thousands of popular apps and websites across the internet. An AWS ...
Yahoo

AWS services 'fully recovered' after major outage disrupts apps and websites around the world

Amazon says that Amazon Web Services, a cloud computer service that powers many of the internet’s most popular apps and websites, has “fully recovered” from a major outage that disrupted online ...
Ars Technica

Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions

On Monday afternoon, Amazon confirmed that an outage affecting Amazon Web Services’ cloud hosting, which had impacted millions across the Internet, had been resolved. Popular apps like Snapchat, ...
TechCrunch

Amazon identifies the issue that broke much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal

An outage on Monday affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), which took out vast swathes of the web, including websites, banks, and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the ...
CoinDesk

Crypto’s ‘Decentralized’ Illusion Shattered Again by Another AWS Meltdown

On the morning of Oct. 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that cascaded into widespread service disruptions across thousands of websites and applications. Several large ...