By Naija247news Tech Desk | October 21, 2025- A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday disrupted some of the world’s biggest online platforms — from financial apps and social media networks to popular gaming services — leaving millions of users unable to access essential services.

The disruption, which originated from AWS’s US-EAST-1 Region, caused significant connectivity problems for global websites dependent on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure.

In a statement posted on its Service Health Dashboard, Amazon said:

“We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

A later update noted that engineers had “identified a potential root cause” and were “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.”

AWS — the cloud computing arm of Amazon — provides the backbone for thousands of web applications, including finance, healthcare, logistics, and entertainment platforms. The outage underscored how dependent global digital systems have become on a few cloud providers.

The incident triggered a chain reaction across the internet. Companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 firms reported partial or total outages.

Reuters also reported that Lyft, a major U.S. ride-hailing app, was down for thousands of users, while UK banking customers complained of payment delays and login errors on their mobile apps.

The outage, though temporary, raised fresh concerns about the concentration of internet infrastructure in the hands of a few tech giants. AWS, alongside Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, powers a vast share of the digital economy — hosting everything from government systems to financial institutions.

Analysts say such incidents expose systemic vulnerabilities in the global cloud ecosystem.