List of everything that’s not working as people panic over ‘half the internet’ being down
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Rhiannon Ingle
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Topics: Technology, World News, News, UK News, US News, Social Media, Amazon
This morning (20 October) has been a chaotic one indeed after people were left seriously panicked when seemingly 'half the internet' went down.
It all started after Downdetector, a website that tracks complaints about websites and web services not working, showed the sudden and widespread nature of the outage, which has affected a whole load of apps.
The problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing platform that lets people 'rent' servers without the need to buy physical computers or data centres.
AWS has since issued a series of updates on the case as concerns grow across the globe.
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One of the more recent updates, AWS shared a 'potential root' for the issue.
"We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region," AWS wrote.
"Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1. We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.
"This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. Global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints, such as IAM updates and DynamoDB Global tables, may also be experiencing issues.
"During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases. We recommend customers continue to retry any failed requests.
"We will continue to provide updates as we have more information to share, or by 2:45 AM."
Soon after, AWS assured: "We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information."
And the latest update at the time of writing reads: "We continue to observe recovery across most of the affected AWS Services. We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered.
"We continue to work towards full resolution and will provide updates as we have more information to share."
Now, while some websites and apps seem to be back up and running, Downdetector has shared a full list of which services are 'down or having problems'.
wow AWS went down and took half the internet with it pic.twitter.com/KfOIEVQ7ki
— ΣTΞCH (@SigmaTechRBLX) October 20, 2025
The full list, according to Downdetector, is as follows:
aws casually bringing down half the internet again pic.twitter.com/0mOdn12MHQ
— Will Garman (@WillGarman1) October 20, 2025
People have since rushed to social media to share their panic over the ordeal, with one X (formerly Twitter) user writing: "Holy sh*t the whole f*cking internet is down."
"Wow, AWS went down and took half the internet with it," penned a second, while a third chimed in: "Just witnessed half of the internet go down lol."
A fourth piped up: "So the entire internet just went down basically?"
"Damn, the AWS outage took down everything on the internet," a fifth wrote, while another echoed: "Yes it’s not just you. Large parts of the internet are down."
When approached for comment on the matter, Amazon pointed Tyla to the AWS Health Dashboard.