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Revealed: What's the extent of the damage following the Amazon outage?

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 21 Oct 2025, 7:43pm
Amazon Web Services was affected by a major outage overnight. Photo / Getty Images
Amazon Web Services was affected by a major outage overnight. Photo / Getty Images

Revealed: What's the extent of the damage following the Amazon outage?

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 21 Oct 2025, 7:43pm

Problems with Amazon's cloud services in the US have been felt around the world.

Thousands of websites and apps were affected by an outage during the night, including TVNZ Plus, Neon, Sky TV, Snapchat and Wordle.

Tech commentator Paul Spain says a lot of things got broken in the process of trying to undo the damage, and some businesses are still trying to recover.

"When you break a lot of technology, sometimes it takes quite a bit of effort to actually get that fully back to operation, and possibly Amazon have been a bit cautious about putting thing back up to full speed, but they haven't officially indicated that from what I've seen." 

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