Amazon (AMZN) shares continued to gain ground in late trading on Thursday with the company’s earnings call highlighting the advancements in its cloud computing segment, new features on its ecommerce site,

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Amazon.com plans to continue spending on capacity to meet demand for artificial intelligence and cloud products.

At about 4:30PM ET on October 20, things seemed to be returning back to normal. Apps like Venmo and Lyft, which were either slow to respond or completely nonresponsive before, were appearing to behave smoothly.

A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is wreaking havoc on the Internet. In an update Monday morning, Amazon said that it is “still experiencing elevated errors.” A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is affected major websites and apps on Monday. Downdetector is even running a breaking news bar at the top of the site.

Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.

Amazon shares jumped 10% as the company's third quarter numbers beat Wall Street forecasts on the top and bottom lines by a lot and by even more for the closely watched Amazon Web Services, or AWS, division.

On October 20, 2025, the digital world experienced a significant disruption when a major outage in Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) affected numerous online services. Millions of users found themselves unable to access platforms like Fortnite,