Ensuring Branch · Site · Network Resiliency with Dispersive Stealth NetworkingThis post is a quick response from Scott Higgins, Senior Director of Engineering at Dispersive, following the recent AWS US-East-1 outage.

Cloud monitoring platform Datadog launched Updog, a web dashboard that shows the live health status of various SaaS APIs.

AWS outage from DNS, EC2 and DynamoDB issues explained as cloud infrastructure at data centers and potentially AI technology played a role as Amazon invests in AI.

What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media),

Reddit, Roblox and Ring are just a tiny fraction of the 1,000-plus sites and services that were affected when Amazon Web Services went down, causing a major internet blackout.

In making sense of all the hullabaloo, cybersecurity expert David Kennedy just dropped a curt and pertinent take on the AWS outage.

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

An early-morning disruption for Amazon Web Services caused widespread errors across key cloud systems — a reminder of how dependent state and local agencies have become on centralized infrastructure.

The AWS outage that caused widespread global disruption for about half of Monday has officially been resolved, but numerous lingering issues remain that could take days or even weeks to fully resolve.

Amazon Web Services hires former DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor as VP of security services and observability, enhancing security in AI.