AWS Outage Disrupts Global Services as Amazon Scrambles to Fix EC2 and Lambda Issues
Amazon Web Services faces mounting criticism as a cascading failure in its EC2 internal network paralyzes businesses worldwide. Over 11 million outage reports flooded monitoring platforms, with 2,500+ companies reporting frozen payment systems, inoperable customer portals, and stalled industrial automation. The US-EAST-1 region—a critical internet infrastructure hub—remains unstable despite Amazon's claims of partial recovery.
Financial analysts warn of potential nine-figure losses as AWS's Lambda computing service exhibits intermittent failures. Engineers implemented emergency throttling on SQS polling rates, a stopgap measure that underscores the severity of the breakdown. The incident exposes the fragility of cloud-dependent economies, with no clear timeline for full restoration.
