When AWS goes down: what it teaches us about true uptime
Updated: 16 dec 2025
On the morning of 20 October 2025, millions of users around the world woke up to something unusual. Alexa couldn’t answer questions, Fortnite wouldn’t load, and even major business tools like Airtable and Canva were down. The culprit: a massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that rippled across the internet.