Massive AWS Outage Halt The Internet – Disrupting Snapchat, Prime Video, Canva, and More

A catastrophic Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage struck on October 20, 2025, bringing down major platforms like Snapchat, Amazon Prime Video, and Canva, and revealing the internet’s dangerous dependence on a single cloud provider.

Starting at 12:11 a.m. PDT (12:41 p.m. IST), a DNS resolution failure in AWS’s US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia triggered widespread disruptions, freezing apps, websites, and critical services for millions globally.

Though resolved by midday, the incident sparked urgent calls for diversifying digital infrastructure to prevent future chaos.

🚨 AWS is reportedly down, and it’s causing chaos across the internet! 😱 My 3 sites are offline, Perplexity, Postman, Docker, and tons of other services are struggling. Anyone else facing issues? What’s broken for you? 🛠️ #AWSOutage #InternetDown pic.twitter.com/UMQ2GlCA9Z

— Abhi ਕਿਸਾਨ 🌾 (@KisanAbhi08) October 20, 2025

The Trigger: A DNS Disaster

The outage originated in AWS’s DynamoDB ...