AWS outage live: Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure down

October 29, 2025

Amazon Web Services reportedly suffered a major outage on Wednesday, causing issues across a host of websites using the cloud provider
Amazon Web Services reportedly suffered a major outage on Wednesday, causing issues across a host of websites using the cloud provider (Reuters)

Thousands of unofficial reports are pouring in Wednesday of issues with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform that backs up numerous major companies and parts of the internet.

More than 6,000 crowd-sourced issue reports have been filed today with the monitoring site Downdetector.

Amazon has said the marquee service is running without incident.

“AWS is operating normally,” an AWS spokesperson told The Independent. “The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard.”

The claims of an outage come barely a week after an AWS issue caused problems across major applications like Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo and Canva.

Separately, Microsoft on Wednesday announced ongoing “network availability” issues on Azure, its cloud service, within the Azure Front Door network.

“We are taking two concurrent actions where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services and at the same time rolling back to our last known good state,” the company wrote.

Amazon denies an AWS outage is underway

Despite a brief surge in consumer issue reports, AWS says there is not outage on its cloud platform.

“AWS is operating normally,” an AWS spokesperson told The Independent. “The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard.”

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 18:14

Where are users reporting issues?

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Whenever there are issues with cloud service providers, their effects are soon felt across internet-connected apps and services throughout the economy.

According to unofficial crowd-sourced data on Downdetector, there has been a spike in reported issues today from users of the Xbox Network, Xfinity customers, Microsoft Teams users, and Starbucks rewards members.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 18:13

Microsoft Azure announces issues of its own

While Amazon disputes reports of an AWS outage, Microsoft has publicly announced issues today on its Azure cloud platform.

“Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, customers and Microsoft services that leverage Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced issues resulting in latencies, timeouts and errors,” the company wrote on the Azure website. “We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.”

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 17:51

Amazon says service is running normally and points to corporate dashboard

There aren’t any ongoing issues with AWS, according to Amazon.

“AWS is operating normally,” the company said in a statement.

“The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard.”

That dashboard does not show any outages at the moment.

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 17:35

Another AWS outage hits

Another Amazon Web Services outage has reportedly hit, impacting thousands.

We’ll be tracking whether today’s reported AWS issue has similar ripple effects to the one that hit last week.

Follow along for the latest updates

Josh Marcus29 October 2025 17:22

 

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