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s November 19, 2025
Two Outages On Different Online Services, Less Than A Month Apart, Should Be A Wakeup Call As To How Much Of Daily Life Offline Depends On The Internet
On Tuesday, November 18, for the second time in less than a month a major internet service suffered a catastrophic outage that made websites all over the internet, large and small, inaccessible to global users.
While Amazon and Cloudfare deny these internet outages were caused by "attacks," the very fact that two separate major cloud and website protection services suffered massive outages, causing large swathes of the internet to become inaccessible, twice in less than a month, seems to me to be more of an attack than simply internal company failures, or coding issues.
Cloud services are infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by third-party providers and made available to users through the internet.
Cloud services facilitate the flow of user data from front-end clients (e.g., users’ servers, tablets, desktops, laptops—anything on the users’ ends), through the internet, to the provider’s systems, and back. Cloud services promote the building of cloud-native applications and the flexibility of working in the cloud. Users can access cloud services with nothing more than a computer, operating system, and internet connectivity.
AMAZON OUTAGES......
On October 19, 2025, Amazon Cloud service suffered a massive outage, which "disrupted internet use around the world." Amazon is one of the leading providers of cloud services, accounting for approximately a third of the market, so that outage took out a wide range of services including social media, gaming sites, food delivery, streaming services and some financial platforms.
Amazon did put out a "post-even summary," which explained the events, but for regular every day users, the bottom line was many could not access their favorite websites, services went down, and there were offline ramifications to the massive outage.
Via Cnet, we see more on the scope of the Amazon outage:
The outage rendered huge portions of the internet unavailable for much of the workday for many people. As Monday rolled along, it affected more than 2,000 companies and services, including Reddit, Ring, Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, the PlayStation Network, Venmo, Amazon itself, critical services such as online banking and household amenities such as luxury smart beds.
CLOUDFLARE OUTAGES.....
On November 18, 2025, All News PipeLine readers were not able to access this website, although those already on the site at the time the site went down were still able to comment as long as they didn't close the window or tab, it was soon discovered that it wasn't a site issue, but rather a service we use to protect against attacks, Cloudflare.
In an explanation to the website TechRadar, Cloudflare stated "We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare's services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare's network to experience errors. We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic. We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic. We will post updates to cloudflarestatus.com and more in-depth analysis when it is ready to blog.cloudflare.com."
Websites other than ANP that were rendered inaccessible included one of the largest social media platforms, X (formerly known and Twitter), graphic sites, Chatbot and AI websites, and ironically Down Detector which is an online platform that monitors and reports on other website outages.
The portion of the Cloudflare explanation to TechRadar cited above which I put in bold, stating they notice "unusual traffic," caught my eye because in September 2025 it was reported that Cloudflare had blocked a "record setting" number of DDoS (Distributed Denial of service) attacks.
During a DDoS attack, a series of bots, or botnet, floods a website or service with HTTP requests and traffic. Essentially, multiple computers storm one computer during an attack, pushing out legitimate users. As a result, service can be delayed or otherwise disrupted for a length of time.
It’s possible that hackers can also infiltrate your database during an attack, accessing sensitive information. DDoS attacks can exploit security vulnerabilities and target any endpoint that is reachable, publicly, through the internet.
While there are different types of DDoS attacks, including a volumetric attack, a protocol attack, and a resource layer attack, all are malicious attacks, deliberately trying to knock out a website, or multiple websites or services.
DDoS attacks are the very reason that websites, large and small, such as ANP, use Cloudflare, because the service blocks those types of attacks in order to keep the website running.
ALMOST EVERYTHING IS CONTROLLED BY THE INTERNET THESE DAYS.....
Massive internet events like the Amazon and Cloudflare outages are excellent reminders of just how much of our daily life would be disrupted, in some cases on a disastrous scale, if the entire internet went down.
It would not just be the inability to access your favorite websites, but the offline ramifications could be catastrophic.
Text messaging, cell phones, cable, satellite services, electronic banking, electricity, water (unless you use well water) even landline phones would be down, because almost all our daily services and utilities are wired into the internet in some form or fashion.
The economic fallout would be massive.
How Stuff Works previously pointed out that "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce accounted for 35 percent of all shipments from the manufacturing industry in 2007." It is now 2025, so that number is likely exponentially higher.
Some countries would feel the sting more than others. Developed countries would face severe economic crises as entire industry sectors either disappeared or struggled to survive in the wake of devastating losses. Other countries wouldn't suffer as many direct effects from the collapse because they don't have much of a presence on the internet. But these countries would also suffer as the trade and aid they depend upon from other connected countries decreases.
Very few types of businesses would remain unaffected by the collapse of the internet. The internet has become pervasive in business.
Nations can literally be brought down, without a shot fired, by collapsing their internet services.
BOTTOM LINE........
Two sets of outages, against two separate major cloud and protection services, in less than a month, should be a wakeup call for all of us as to how much of our daily lives depend on internet services.
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