The Day AWS Went Dark: Inside the US-East-1 Outage
A DNS failure inside Amazon's Virginia data hub knocked Snapchat, Fortnite, Ring and banks offline for 15 hours. Here is what actually broke.
Oct 21, 2025

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A DNS failure inside Amazon's Virginia data hub knocked Snapchat, Fortnite, Ring and banks offline for 15 hours. Here is what actually broke.
Oct 21, 2025

IBM's 2026 breach report puts the regional average at 8 million dollars, with lost business the single largest line at 3.57 million. The cheapest number in the study is the one most firms have not spent.
Aug 18, 2026

Amazon's after-action report on the October outage confirms a blunt truth: one region in Virginia carries too much of the world's digital weight.
Nov 10, 2025

Ukrainian drones shut Yandex's Vladimir facility on Sunday after hits on Sasovo and Kaluga, and a Cloudflare reading showing automated traffic from Yandex's network down about 94 per cent.
Oct 12, 2026

The Claude maker's public S-1 shows revenue up about 1,300 percent in six months, a first operating profit in one quarter, a founder share that holds 50.1 percent of votes, and a debut weeks away.
Oct 28, 2026
