{"id":968874,"date":"2025-10-22T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968874"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:28:17","slug":"how-the-aws-outage-exposed-the-internets-fragile-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/22\/how-the-aws-outage-exposed-the-internets-fragile-core\/","title":{"rendered":"How the AWS outage exposed the Internet\u2019s fragile core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 October 2025, when half of the world was engrossed in Diwali celebrations, the digital sphere experienced a major mishap. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon\u2019s cloud computing platform, had suffered a technical issue, and in the minutes following, it took down a host of websites dependent on its hosting service. While cloud computing outage is a common phenomenon, this one was big \u2013 it took down prominent services like Snapchat, Perplexity, Amazon\u2019s e-commerce website, Prime Video, Signal, Atlassian, Apple\u2019s digital services, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 October 2025, when half of the world was engrossed in Diwali celebrations, the digital sphere experienced a major mishap. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon\u2019s cloud computing platform, had suffered a technical issue, and in the minutes following, it took down a host of websites dependent on its hosting service. While cloud computing outage is a common phenomenon, this one was big \u2013 it took down prominent services like Snapchat, Perplexity, Amazon\u2019s e-commerce website, Prime Video, Signal, Atlassian, Apple\u2019s digital services, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}