On Monday, October 20, 2025, a major AWS outage rippled across the internet: apps froze, websites crashed and millions of users found themselves locked out of everyday services.
Popular platforms such as Reddit, WhatsApp, Snapchat, as well as banking and tax portals, all reported widespread outages. For small businesses and global brands alike, the outage meant lost revenue and frustrated users. The event laid bare how dependent our daily lives have become on cloud infrastructure and its promise of being ‘always online.’
When much of the internet blinked offline, Bluehost-hosted websites kept running without interruption. The outage became an unexpected case study in what true hosting resilience looks like.
What did the AWS outage reveal about internet dependence?
The event exposed something long suspected but seldom fully confronted: the fragility of the internet’s infrastructure. Most apps, SaaS platforms and eCommerce stores leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, which accelerate innovation but also concentrate risk.
Naturally, in such a model, when the major provider stumbles, a broad swath of the digital ecosystem can cascade into trouble. On the other hand, businesses hosted independently or on hybrid infrastructures can avoid being swept up by someone else’s meltdown. It highlights why diversifying infrastructure is critical for digital continuity.
Bluehost’s resilience, powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
At Bluehost, our foundation is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a robust and rapidly expanding platform trusted by enterprises worldwide.
OCI’s growing global presence and multi-region architecture strengthen our reliability. Moreover, it makes sure that our customers enjoy uninterrupted performance.
With OCI’s multi-region redundancy and independently operated data centers built for high availability, our platform remained unaffected by the AWS disruption. Its enterprise-grade infrastructure plays a key role in maintaining uninterrupted uptime even when parts of the broader internet experience instability.
While other businesses scrambled to bring servers back, Bluehost customers continued to serve visitors, process sales and maintain operations without interruption.
Why Bluehost stayed up when others went down: The core features that ensured continuity
To understand why Bluehost remained online while much of the internet went dark, it’s worth examining the key technologies and systems that underpin its resilience.
1. Oracle-powered reliability and performance
During the AWS outage, Bluehost-hosted websites continued to operate normally. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, our cloud hosting offers 100% network uptime backed by continuous monitoring across global data centers. Automated alerts and self-healing servers fix issues before they cause downtime, keeping sites reliable, fast and accessible even when other parts of the internet go dark.
2. DNS and global CDN integration
We integrate advanced DNS management and global content-delivery-network (CDN) routing. We provide free CDN powered by Cloudflare with Argo Routing on all Managed WordPress and shared hosting plans. This integration helps improve site loading speed and reliability by delivering content quickly to visitors worldwide.
So, even during spikes in global DNS traffic, our routing remained responsive and uninterrupted.
3. 100% uptime in cloud hosting and real-time monitoring
Bluehost Cloud Hosting delivers 100% network uptime with continuous monitoring across global data centers. Automated alerts and self-healing servers catch and fix issues before they cause downtime. The result is a hosting system built for reliability, speed and consistent WordPress performance.
4. Automated backups and disaster recovery
Additionally, we also offer daily backups and instant restore points to website owners. This gives them peace of mind, especially critical when unexpected global network events occur. Even amid sweeping cloud failures, data integrity and restoration capabilities are preserved.
5. 24/7 expert support
Lastly, when many hosting operations experience multiple failures, our customers benefit from round-the-clock live support. Having customer support executives available at any hour becomes a key asset during widespread digital outages.
Together, these core features underpin why Bluehost “remained online” while so many others did not. The AWS outage became a real-world stress test, and Bluehost passed.
Final thoughts
The AWS outage proved what many feared: centralization makes the internet fragile. In contrast, Bluehost’s independence, underpinned by Oracle Cloud, ensured seamless uptime.
In a world where one provider’s failure can ripple across the internet, true digital resilience depends on diversification. By partnering with a leading, fast-growing cloud platform like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we guarantee continuity, reliability and peace of mind, no matter what happens elsewhere on the web.
It’s a reminder that sustained uptime comes from thoughtful infrastructure, the kind we have built for long-term reliability. Choose hosting that keeps you connected, no matter what happens. Get started with Bluehost.
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