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Lessons from the AWS Virginia outage: why business continuity planning is non-negotiable
The incident!On 20 October 2025, at 07:11 AM GMT, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major disruption in its US-East (Virginia) region — one of its oldest and largest data centres. The incident triggered a chain reaction across the internet, temporarily taking down or slowing thousands of websites, mobile applications, and cloud-hosted services around the…