DFX Intelligence
Which companies just had a verified incident, who lends to them and who owns them. Every claim carries its evidence level and its source. How we decide what is confirmed
Global Financial Service Disruptions
Robinhood
brokerage · US · North America · Robinhood Markets Inc.
Technical failureStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 2 of 5Evidence confidence: mediumAnalyst-verified
Robinhood said on 20 Oct 2025 that an AWS outage was affecting its services; it later reported normal operation. Stocktwits reported renewed outages after AWS said its issue was resolved.
- First disruption
- Oct 20
- First public signal
- Oct 20 (Robinhood help account post on X)
- Acknowledged
- Oct 20
- Restored
- Oct 20
- Duration
- not established
- DFX first recorded
- Nov 5 14:58 UTC
What was restricted
tradingmobile appScope: institution wide
Robinhood services degraded during AWS outage; later said available and operating normally.
Cause, kept in separate layers
- What the institution said
- AWS (one of our third-party vendors) is experiencing an outage
- DFX classification
- Technical failure (cyber: ruled out)
- Conflicting reports
- Duration for Robinhood not stated.
Dependencies
A dependency is a documented relationship. It is not evidence that the provider was compromised.
- Provider: Amazon Web Services us-east-1 (cloud hosting), verified
Evidence
- Fortune · 2025-10-20
- Stocktwits · 2025-10-20