What surprised me about the AWS outage was...

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by qwikad.com, Oct 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM.

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    ...how many services are dependent on them:

    Netflix
    Twitch
    Airbnb
    Facebook (Meta)
    LinkedIn
    Pinterest
    Slack
    Disney+
    Fortnite
    Capital One
    NASA

    ...and a few more.

    I noticed a significant drop in traffic, which is surprising since my traffic isn't tied to any of the services that were down (maybe Pinterest, but I haven't posted there in months). Could there be something I'm missing?
     
    qwikad.com, Oct 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM IP
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    jrbiz Acclaimed Member

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    I did not notice any disruptions during that time. However, I can see traffic being down from people who went to Facebook, e.g., found problems and decided that the Internet or their connection was down and went off to do something else. AWS is, by far, the leading Internet/cloud service. Google and Microsoft are in second and third place but not even close.
     
    jrbiz, Oct 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM IP
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    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    To their credit they identified the issue and were up and running in fairly short order.
     
    Spoiltdiva, Oct 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM IP