{"id":13091,"date":"2025-10-20T13:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/amazons-aws-recovering-after-major-outage-disrupts-apps-services-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:11","slug":"amazons-aws-recovering-after-major-outage-disrupts-apps-services-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/amazons-aws-recovering-after-major-outage-disrupts-apps-services-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s AWS recovering after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This, along with some of the world&#8217;s most popular apps, Snapchat and Reddit, and disrupted businesses globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The turmoil marked the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">largest<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> internet disruption since last year&#8217;s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, and highlights the vulnerability of the world&#8217;s interconnected technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After roughly three hours of disruptions, systems were gradually coming back online as of 12h00 CAT, with AWS saying it was seeing &#8220;significant signs of recovery&#8221; for some impacted services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests,&#8221; it said in the latest update on the outage posted on its status page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals. Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms that rely on its cloud infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">AWS competes with Google and Microsoft&#8217;s cloud services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Asked for comment on the outage, AWS directed <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to its status page. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Junade Ali, a Software Engineer, Cyber Expert and Fellow at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, said the issue appeared to be with one of the networking systems AWS uses to control a database product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;As this issue can usually <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be resolved<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> centrally, unless there are further issues identified, the issue should be able to be mitigated over the coming hours,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13092,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13091","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Amazon's cloud services unit, Amazon Web Service (AWS) was recovering on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites. ||Amazon's cloud services unit, Amazon Web Service (AWS) was recovering on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites. 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