Amazon has categorically refuted claims that its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), suffered another major outage on October 29, 2025. This denial comes in the wake of recent mass layoffs that saw hundreds of employees from critical infrastructure teams lose their jobs.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, fueled by accelerating growth in its cloud computing business and strong spending by its customers looking for low prices at a time when inflation is resurging.

User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern time, with most reports concentrated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region.

When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.

Fastnet is the first cable that Amazon is building on its own. The company backed multiple subsea internet projects in the past, but it developed them as part of consortiums. One of those cables, the Bifrost optical link that connects the U.S. and Singapore, came online last month.

On Wednesday Amazon announced the completion of its data-center initiative Project Rainier, which will primarily be used to service Anthropic's compute needs. The company expects Anthropic's Claude to be using over one million of Amazon's custom Trainium2 chips by year-end.

Amazon Web Services (AMZN) plans to build a trans-Atlantic subsea fiber optic cable system to help address the rising demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence.