In the early hours of Thursday, November 6, 2025, a significant and unresolved outage disrupted digital services across multiple key agencies of the New Jersey state government.
The disruption, which began in the wee hours, remained unexplained by officials throughout the night, leaving residents unable to access critical online functions.
The affected departments are those responsible for core state operations.
The Department of the Treasury, which manages state finances and tax payments, was completely inaccessible online.
The Department of Banking and Insurance, a portal for consumer financial services and regulatory information, was also down.
The Department of Transportation, a resource for motor vehicle services and infrastructure updates, experienced a full outage.
Further, the websites for the Department of Corrections and the Department of State were non-operational.
Crucially, the outage was not universal.
A check of state web portals confirmed that other departments, including Agriculture, Education, Health, and Labor & Workforce Development, remained fully functional and accessible to the public.
This selective impact suggests a failure within a specific segment of the state’s digital infrastructure, rather than a general network collapse.
The only communication from the state was a uniform message posted on the error pages of the impacted sites, stating, “A number of state websites and applications are experiencing an unexpected interruption. Please know our teams are working hard to get everything up and running for you as soon possible.”
The incident occurs against a backdrop of renewed concern over the stability of the cloud computing infrastructure that governments and corporations increasingly rely upon.
Just two weeks prior, on October 23, 2025, a major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS)—a leading provider of cloud technology—caused widespread disruptions to major platforms including Delta Air Lines, Disney+, and Reddit.
That AWS outage was attributed to a failure in its Domain Name System (DNS), which translates web addresses into machine-readable instructions.
While the state of New Jersey has not confirmed the root cause of today’s event, the parallels to the recent AWS failure are striking.
The selective nature of the outages often points to a dependency on a single, failed service or provider.
The continued silence from official channels beyond the boilerplate message has left observers to question the resilience of the systems managing the state’s most vital operations.