{"id":84785,"date":"2026-07-24T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84785"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:18:34","slug":"half-the-internet-goes-down-as-amazon-cloud-outage-disrupts-major-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/half-the-internet-goes-down-as-amazon-cloud-outage-disrupts-major-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Half The Internet&#8217; Goes Down As Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Major Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dozens of popular websites crashed on Friday, possibly leaving millions of users unable to access online services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Issues began around 6.40am ET, affecting a range of services including Apple Pay, DoorDash,\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-fb38a740-8755-11f1-90e8-677562f1c3bf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/reddit\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Reddit<\/a><\/span> and streaming platform Hulu, according to Downdetector, which monitors online outages.\u00a0The widespread disruption appeared to be linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which confirmed it was investigating connectivity problems affecting multiple services in its US-West-2 region in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-fb3b1840-8755-11f1-90e8-677562f1c3bf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/oregon\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Oregon<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid): Dozens of popular websites crashed on Friday, possibly leaving millions of users unable to access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84786,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84785\/revisions\/84786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}