☁️ “When the Cloud Crashed: What the AWS Outage Means for Us All
When the Cloud Went Dark: The AWS Outage That Exposed the Internet’s Fragility In a world where nearly everything we do flows through the internet—banking, business, education, healthcare, and even our homes—digital infrastructure has become as critical as electricity or clean water. Yet unlike those utilities, much of the internet’s backbone is controlled by private corporations operating largely out of public view. That reality came sharply into focus on October 20, 2025, when Amazon Web Services experienced a massive outage that temporarily took down large portions of the global internet. For hours, millions of people were locked out of services they rely on daily—not because of cyberwarfare or a natural disaster, but because of a failure in a single technical layer most users never think about. The outage wasn’t just a technical hiccup. It was a warning. What Actually Happened Shortly after 3:11 AM ET, AWS’s U.S.-East-1 region in Northern Virginia began experiencing widesprea...