A significant AWS outage on October 19-20, 2025, caused by a DNS failure in the DynamoDB API, led to widespread disruptions across over 140 AWS services, affecting major platforms and clients. The incident highlights the importance of observability in quickly detecting and resolving such failures, emphasizing that organizations using Full-Stack Observability can mitigate financial losses and improve response times during outages. Effective monitoring and real-time visibility into service impacts are crucial for managing risks in cloud environments.

Amazon's cloud service, AWS, experienced a significant outage affecting numerous popular websites and applications, including Snapchat and Reddit. While services have returned to normal, a backlog of messages is still being processed, highlighting the vulnerabilities in the reliance on a few major cloud providers.

A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on October 20, 2025, caused widespread disruptions to various internet services globally, affecting numerous businesses and users. The incident highlighted the reliance on cloud services and raised concerns over their stability and resilience. Users experienced significant interruptions, leading to discussions about the implications for digital infrastructure.

On April 16, 2025, Spotify experienced a global outage due to a bug triggered by a change in the order of Envoy Proxy filters, leading to simultaneous crashes of all Envoy instances. The incident caused a significant traffic disruption, except in the Asia Pacific region, and was eventually mitigated by increasing server capacity and addressing configuration issues. Spotify has outlined steps to prevent similar outages in the future, including bug fixes and improvements in their rollout and monitoring processes.