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AWS Outage Recovery Drags On, Apple Hits First Record of 2025
44 minutes Posted Oct 20, 2025 at 9:39 pm.
p.m. on Monday.Amazon.com Inc.’s service underpins a large chunk of the internet, accounting for about a third of the cloud market. Downdetector tracked disruptions at hundreds of sites, including for financial services outfits Venmo and Robinhood Markets Inc., Apple Inc.’s Apple Music and Apple TV, software companies such as Zoom Communications Inc., Salesforce Inc. and Snowflake Inc., food services giants including McDonald’s Corp. and gaming companies like Epic Games Inc. Even Amazon’s own services, including Alexa and the Ring home security system, weren’t immune.Today's show features: Bloomberg Big Tech team leader Sarah Frier on the AWS service disruption Bloomberg News Managing Editor for Global Consumer Tech Mark Gurman on Apple hitting its first record day of the yearBloomberg Businessweek national correspondent Josh Green on his Businessweek profile of California Governor Gavin Newsom  Herman Chan, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst & David George, senior research analyst at Baird on Zions earnings and regional banks Gary Evans, Chairman and CEO of United States Antimony Corp See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF.Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, said issues continued to plague its operations after a widespread outage degraded services for a range of customers including government agencies, AI companies and financial platforms.Hours after saying Monday that it had mostly recovered from the database network issue, AWS said some users were still struggling to connect with rented servers. In an update on its health dashboard, the company said multiple AWS services in the East Coast region had experienced network connectivity issues.“We continue to observe recovery across all AWS services,” the company said at 3:15 p.m. on Monday.Amazon.com Inc.’s service underpins a large chunk of the internet, accounting for about a third of the cloud market. Downdetector tracked disruptions at hundreds of sites, including for financial services outfits Venmo and Robinhood Markets Inc., Apple Inc.’s Apple Music and Apple TV, software companies such as Zoom Communications Inc., Salesforce Inc. and Snowflake Inc., food services giants including McDonald’s Corp. and gaming companies like Epic Games Inc. Even Amazon’s own services, including Alexa and the Ring home security system, weren’t immune.Today's show features: Bloomberg Big Tech team leader Sarah Frier on the AWS service disruption Bloomberg News Managing Editor for Global Consumer Tech Mark Gurman on Apple hitting its first record day of the yearBloomberg Businessweek national correspondent Josh Green on his Businessweek profile of California Governor Gavin Newsom  Herman Chan, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst & David George, senior research analyst at Baird on Zions earnings and regional banks Gary Evans, Chairman and CEO of United States Antimony Corp See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.