Khaberni - A new sudden collapse in the cloud computing systems of both "Amazon" (AWS) and "Microsoft" (Azure) caused widespread disruptions across the global internet, today Wednesday, leading to the shutdown of major digital services and platforms across various sectors, from business to entertainment and daily applications.
Data from "Downdetector," a site specializing in tracking technical failures, showed that the problems began around 11:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, where millions of users complained about difficulty accessing sites and applications linked to cloud services.
The impacts included dozens of famous platforms that rely on "Amazon" and "Microsoft" servers, among them Microsoft 365, Xbox, Outlook, Starbucks, Costco, and Kroger, as well as popular development tools and software like Blackbaud and Minecraft, which also faced connection difficulties.
The site confirmed that crash reports saw a sharp simultaneous jump in products from both giant companies, proving that the outage was not confined to a narrow geographical or technical scope but affected the very backbone of the internet infrastructure itself.
Experts believe that the simultaneous disruption of both AWS and Azure is a serious indicator, as thousands of major companies rely on them to run their e-commerce stores, store their data, and manage their cloud applications, making any malfunction in these systems capable of causing partial paralysis in the global internet.
A wave of anger spread on social media platforms, with some users mocking the tech giants' control over internet infrastructure. One user wrote on Platform X: "First AWS went down, now Azure too... Great that two companies own half of the internet."
This outage marks the second in less than ten days in "Amazon's" services, raising questions about the fragility of the global internet infrastructure when concentrated in the hands of a limited number of giant companies.
Despite the size of the problem, the "Amazon" service status page showed no new official report about the Wednesday failures, leading some users to believe that the current outage might be a continuation of previous issues.
For its part, "Microsoft" in an official update confirmed that the failures that affected the "Azure" system resulted from an issue in a part of the internet system known as DNS, which helps computers find websites.
The company noted that it had taken "urgent measures to restore access to the platform" and that it "continues to investigate the root cause of the incident."
Estimates indicate that more than four million companies worldwide rely on AWS services, including 90% of companies like Fortune 100, as well as major institutions such as Netflix, Disney, and Airbnb. Also, more than 550,000 customers use the Azure platform to run their digital services.
