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Tech outages in 2025 had a big impact on the internet and billions of users who were unable to access the platforms. Here are the top 5 incidents.
We are coming to the end of 2025 and it is time to look at some of the important events that took place in the tech circuit over the last 12 months. Tech outages have become rampant and extremely damaging in the last few years and 2025 was certainly no different.
The AWS incident on October 20, 2025 was by far the most significant tech outage that was recorded in 2025 and over 17 million user reports tells you how big the incident was and how many people were affected by the down time. It lasted for around 15 hours and had a direct impact on platforms like Netflix, Snapchat and many e-commerce sites.
PlayStation network is a big part of Sony’s PS family and over 3.8 million user reports confirmed the outage on February 7, 2025. The down time was recorded for over a day which meant users couldn’t access titles like Call Of Duty and Fortnite among others.
Yes, the most recent tech outage at Cloudflare on November 18, 2025 took down a massive chunk of the internet services for over 5 hours. The core network issue at the company meant 3.3 million reports from users talking about their inability to access the most basic platforms.
YouTube was also part of the dubious list from Downdetector with its outage on October 15, 2025 reported by 3 million users. The problems were reported globally, which meant billions were having issues trying to watch videos or even upload them on the platform.
Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) makes the top 5 chart for the tech outages in 2025 and over 2 million users had reported the issue with the platform March 10, 2025 which also had a big impact on India, with over 600,000 reports from users in the region.
