A huge outage affects apps and websites on October 20, so what went wrong? Pickr joins the ABC to explain.
Depending on what you were doing the evening of October 20, 2025 in Australia, you might not have noticed it. If you were reading a book, sitting down for dinner, or getting to bed early, nothing would have changed.
But if you were awake, browsing the web, trying to Snapchat or play Roblox, or using a variety of services or websites, you might have thought the internet was broken.
Over at one of Amazon’s massive data centres, the server provider had huge problems, taking out a lot of services. So what went wrong?
Pickr’s editor Leigh Stark joined ABC Adelaide’s Spence Denny to talk about what happened and explain some of the terms, while also dive into more about the cloud than you might know.
Hear it on the ABC Adelaide Evenings show for October 20, 2025, starting at just before the 2 hour mark (1:59:45) for a chat on all things server outages and the cloud.
