One of the many online services impacted by the October 20, 2025, internet outage was Venmo. Get a restoration update on the payment app here.

PayPal and Venmo are both experiencing outages as of the morning of October 16, with thousands of reports suggesting a widespread issue.

TEXAS – A widespread Amazon Web Services outage disrupted thousands of websites and online services Monday morning, affecting major platforms including Venmo, Hulu and McDonald’s. AWS first reported the “operational issue” at 2:11 a.m., with the cloud computing giant later indicating significant progress in restoring services.

The popular peer-to-peer payment platform Venmo went down on Monday, October 20, one of several apps taken offline amid widespread Amazon's AWS service outages.

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Payment apps PayPal and Venmo hit with outages on Thursday, Oct. 16. Thousands of users reported issues to Downdetector.com

Amazon Web Services is a cloud service provider for much of the Internet and experienced technical outages early Monday morning