Oct. 23 at 11:47 PM
$RXT Is Rackspace Technology a likely beneficiary of the recent AWS outage?
On October 19-20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant multi-hour outage originating in its US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia data center). The issue stemmed from DNS resolution failures in the DynamoDB service, leading to elevated error rates and latencies across numerous AWS services. This disruption cascaded to thousands of dependent websites and applications, including Snapchat, Reddit, Venmo, Ring, Fortnite, Alexa, and Pokémon GO, affecting millions of users globally. Services were largely restored by the afternoon of October 20, though some backlogs persisted for hours afterward.
