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Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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Looks like it was an Amazon AWS outage. Just geos to how how vulnerable the Internet is as it becomes ever more concentrated into the hands of the tech giants.
As someone who works in tech I occasionally point out to people that if Jeff Bezos decided to go full supervillain he could hold the internet hostage. If you disabled AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud individually the cascading failures on the various systems would take weeks to fix, which we might not have with a supply chain collapse. Genuinely, I think there's a real chance it could trigger the collapse of human civilization
The mindblowing part of it for me is that a company the size of Disney don't seem to have the appetite to own and run their own servers.
These are the same people that managed to get two counties redistricted so that they could own their own city, and to this day literally buy the entire electorate by giving housing only to people who vote the way they're told to.
They're being run by accountants, and one thing accountants hate is paying people to do a job, its always "far easier" just to pay a company for that.
And criminals.
That's what they said.