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Marketplace Morning Report

When a cloud service that powers much of the internet goes down

Marketplace Morning Report

Marketplace

News, Business

4.5927 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

There's been a major outage of Amazon Web Services, the Amazon system that does computing for other companies. The list of impacted sites and platforms is lengthy: Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, Lyft, McDonald's, Robinhood, and Amazon itself, to name a few. We'll hear more. Plus, altcoins are poised to take a step into the financial mainstream, and China plans its economic future as it deals with tariff fallout and slowing economic growth.

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Companies pay other companies to do their remote computing. That's the cloud. Overnight part of that cloud burst.

1:05.7

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. There's been a major outage of the Amazon system that does computing for other

1:11.9

companies, cutting off some banks, social media sites, video games, and apps from the Lyft Car

1:18.1

Service to McDonald's, Marketplaces Mitchell Hartman has the latest.

1:22.2

Amazon Web Services is a major provider of cloud computing services, from servers to storage, to many of the

1:28.8

biggest companies in the world.

1:30.7

Starting in the early hours of Monday morning, the website Down Detector started reporting

1:36.1

a spike in outages related to Amazon Web Services.

1:39.8

The list of websites and mobile apps that have reportedly been impacted includes social media

1:45.3

sites, Facebook, Snapchat, and Reddit, cloud-based gaming sites, Roblox, and Fortnite.

1:51.5

Commercial services including Lyft, McDonald's, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Amazon itself, financial

1:57.4

services such as Venmo and some airlines.

2:06.7

Stock trading platform Robin Hood was impacted, and Crypto Exchange Coinbase reported that many users were unable to access its service.

2:10.4

Sites in the UK, including Lloyds and the country's tax authority, were also down this morning.

2:16.6

Amazon said it was investigating problems with its data

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