AWS outage knocks out Delta, United and Southwest websites and apps

A global Amazon Web Services outage centered on the US‑EAST‑1 region temporarily knocked out websites and apps for major U.S. carriers including Delta, United and Southwest, preventing online check‑in and reservations. AWS later said systems recovered after widespread disruptions across airlines, retailers and financial firms.

Discovered 2025-10-20T02:28:19.646552-07:00 | 2025-10-20T02:28:19.646552-07:00

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  • The outage, centered on AWS's US‑EAST‑1 region, directly disrupted airline customer‑facing systems — online check‑in and reservation access were reported down for Delta, United and Southwest, illustrating cloud‑hosted dependency in airline IT stacks.
  • AWS reported systems recovered after the incident, but the event echoes a recent cyber‑related disruption that forced manual check‑in and boarding at major airports (see the Collins Aerospace incident that disrupted Heathrow, Berlin and Brussels).
  • The outage affected multiple sectors (airlines, retailers, social apps, financial firms), underscoring cross‑industry exposure when a dominant cloud provider has a regional failure; airlines reported impacts that varied brand‑by‑brand, highlighting differing resilience and contingency arrangements.

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2025-10-20T02:28:19.646552-07:00
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