You might have seen that AWS had a global outage on Monday which caused problems across the internet. But what is AWS anyway, and why does it matter so much?

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products.

The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook ...

Websites and services across the U.S. and around the world went offline early Monday after a problem at a major cloud computing service left leading games, publishers and streaming platforms unusable ...

On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced a widespread outage that disrupted several online platforms globally, impacting millions of customers. The incident emphasized the dependency of ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst", Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, ...

NASA’s HLS dataset is now hosted on Microsoft’s Planetary Computer, offering scalable access for Earth science research and AI analysis.

An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

WASHINGTON — The internet appears to be recovering after an overnight outage at Amazon Web Services caused major disruptions to popular websites around the world. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is a ...