Amazon.com said Tuesday it is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, citing the need to remove layers and reduce bureaucracy. Its earnings are on Thursday.

A massive Amazon Web Services outage took down dozens of major websites and apps early Monday, affecting platforms like Disney+, Reddit, Lyft, and United Airlines.

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

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,

Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for

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.

The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.

Thousands of 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. As of Wednesday morning, more than 6,000 outage reports had been filed with the monitoring site Downdetector.