Amazon has categorically refuted claims that its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), suffered another major outage on October 29, 2025. This denial comes in the wake of recent mass layoffs that saw hundreds of employees from critical infrastructure teams lose their jobs.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Amazon's cloud division AWS faces growing challenges in the age of AI, with recent outages and competition from Alphabet's Google and Microsoft.

A massive internet outage stemming from errors in Amazon cloud services on Monday morning demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth's computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system.

NBIS' 625% revenue surge reflects its rapid ascent in AI cloud infrastructure, yet AMZN's scale, chip innovation and steady growth reinforce its market edge.

Amazon's cloud computing platform's outage sent shockwaves across most of the world's biggest apps and websites hosted by it

A few days after Amazon's cloud services company AWS had an outage that plunged millions of popular websites and apps into the dark, questions still linger about why some companies get so big in the first place — and why it's so hard to keep them from controlling markets.

Microsoft's Azure platform and other company services are experiencing an outage that started around 12:00 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. The company reported that the outage was triggered by "an inadvertent configuration change" that impacted the Azure Front Door delivery network.