Major Amazon Web Services Outage Causes Global Disruption DIASPORA MESSENGER NEWS MEDIA - Community Center For Kenyans In Diaspora Isaac Mbugua On October 20, 2025, a major outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) sent shockwaves across the digital world, temporarily disabling countless websites, apps, and services that form the fabric of modern internet use. The disruption, traced to a failure in AWS’s US-East-1 region—a critical hub in the company’s cloud infrastructure—exposed the vulne...
