The AWS Outage of October 20, 2025: A Lesson in Embracing Edge Computing for Resilient Data Center Infrastructure
On October 20, 2025, a significant disruption swept through the digital ecosystem when Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major outage, triggered by DNS resolution issues in its US-EAST-1 region. Starting around 3:51 a.m. ET, the outage impacted over 78 services, including EC2, S3, and Lambda, causing widespread downtime for thousands of websites and applications. […]