The 9 weirdest things that happened during Amazon's huge AWS outage

If you have a smartphone or are familiar with the internet, you may have noticed that things weren't quite right yesterday – a huge AWS outage took out the hundreds of services that rely on its cloud computing backbone, and suddenly the digital world felt like it was made of jelly.

The impacts were serious and global, affecting over 1,000 businesses according to Downdetector. But what were some of the stranger glitches and unexpected consequences from the biggest Amazon Web Services outage we've seen for years?

To help give us all a little light relief from error messages and DNS-related nightmares, we've rounded up some of the weirder consequences (big and frivolous) from the biggest IT meltdown since Crowdstrike crashed the world's business computers in 2024...