AWS Outage: Amazon Stock Resilience & Market Impact

Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on October 20th, disrupting global services from financial platforms to airlines while demonstrating remarkable stock resilience. The event, triggered by DynamoDB and DNS issues in AWS’s US-EAST-1 region, affected major platforms including Coinbase, Robinhood, United Airlines, and Lyft, yet Amazon’s shares recovered swiftly, closing up nearly 1% despite the widespread disruption. This rapid bounce-back underscores both the risks of cloud concentration and Amazon’s entrenched dominance in the sector.

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US Government Shutdown Sparks Market Turmoil, Gold Soars

The United States has entered its first government shutdown in nearly seven years, marking the third such closure under President Trump as political gridlock between Democrats and Republicans deepens. This political crisis coincides with troubling economic signals, including a surprising 32,000-job drop in private payrolls reported by ADP, sending investors scrambling for safety in gold as markets stumble into the fourth quarter with mounting uncertainty.

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