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The claim

Russia and China were behind the recent AWS outage on 20 October 2025,

Rating

False

Reviewed by Factcrescendo India ↗ ·

Original fact check ↗

Original review summary

The review says AWS traced the 20 October outage to internal DNS resolution issues in its US-EAST-1 region, not an external attack. It reports no public attribution linking Russian or Chinese state actors to the incident.[S1]

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Sources and attribution

  1. [S1] Factcrescendo India original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026