By Pauline Shangett, Chief Strategy Advisor at NOWNodes
On October 20, 2025, the internet faltered. For hours, countless apps, platforms, and services simply stopped working. Fortnite froze. Snapchat crashed. Alexa went silent. Even major banking and trading apps were down.
The cause wasn’t a cyberattack or a hack; it was a routine software update gone wrong in Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region, one of the most relied-upon pieces of digital infrastructure on the planet.
A small configuration change led to DNS failures that rippled across the global web, breaking everything from gaming to financial services to parts of the crypto ecosystem.
It was a moment of silence and a reminder that the “cloud” isn’t some ethereal, distributed network. It’s a collection of data centers owned by a few companies. And when one of them sneezes, the internet catches a cold.
For most of the world, the outage was an inconvenience. For Web3, it was an existential warning.
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