… Amazon has yet to confirm whether the issue is fully resolved. As a cloud provider through its Amazon Web Services AWS business, Amazon has experienced its fair share of outages, including one in October 2025 that took out services like Snapchat and Amazon's own Alexa voice assistant for hours. …
Xbox explains what caused this week's 'unacceptable' major outage An executive pinned the blame on "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox." By Kris Holt July 28, 2026 11:55 am EST Many Xbox users were unable to play games on their consoles for a large chunk of Monday . …
… An outage started affecting several Xbox services on Sunday evening, including accounts, the digital storefront, apps and games across Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and Xbox 360. Xbox resolved the issue on Monday afternoon. …
… It's not yet public what caused this outage. It's at least the second major outage to hit a Microsoft platform in the last few weeks after many Xbox services were knocked offline for several hours late last month . …
… Interestingly, the fiber optics themselves are immune to GCI-induced outages. …