India, Dec. 31 -- This year, 2025, saw some of the most disruptive outages and failures in recent digital history. From global cloud breakdowns to gaming servers going offline, millions of users faced long hours without the services they rely on every day.

These outages exposed weak links in our tech systems and highlighted how much our world depends on a handful of giant platforms and infrastructure providers. Each such incident caused waves of disruption, whether to entertainment, business, government services or everyday life.

One of the most significant tech disasters of the year came on October 20, 2025, when Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down due to a DNS system error. This problem knocked offline many apps and platforms that dep...