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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

The complaint, filed in San Francisco, says the 12 September exchange between Amodei, Altman, Musk and Hassabis was an agreement among competitors to restrain output, and paying customers get less. The labs may slow alone, the plaintiffs say, not together.
Sep 22, 2026

Firewall rules buy time, distributions ship backports under old version numbers, and containers need rebuilding. What each vendor advised and where the limits are.
Oct 22, 2026
