Key Takeaways
- A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is wreaking havoc on the Internet.
- Companies from Snapchat to Coinbase have been affected.
- In an update Monday morning, Amazon said that it is “still experiencing elevated errors.”
A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is affected major websites and apps on Monday. Downdetector is even running a breaking news bar at the top of the site.
“User reports indicate issues at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the US-East-1 region,” the website’s homepage reads. “These problems are impacting multiple services that depend on AWS infrastructure. We’re monitoring the situation: check your local Downdetector site for the latest updates.”
Reports of an outage began around 3 a.m. ET and peaked an hour later. There were still more than 3,000 reports of outages at 9:30 a.m.
At 3:11 a.m. ET, Amazon wrote on its health status page: “We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region. We will provide another update in the next 30-45 minutes.”
AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing service that helps run many major businesses including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Ring (which Amazon owns), financial services app Robinhood and even McDonald’s.
Although, AWS said the issues were being mitigated, in an update at 9:42 ET, Amazon said that it is “still experiencing elevated errors.”
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
Key Takeaways
- A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is wreaking havoc on the Internet.
- Companies from Snapchat to Coinbase have been affected.
- In an update Monday morning, Amazon said that it is “still experiencing elevated errors.”
A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is affected major websites and apps on Monday. Downdetector is even running a breaking news bar at the top of the site.
“User reports indicate issues at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the US-East-1 region,” the website’s homepage reads. “These problems are impacting multiple services that depend on AWS infrastructure. We’re monitoring the situation: check your local Downdetector site for the latest updates.”
Reports of an outage began around 3 a.m. ET and peaked an hour later. There were still more than 3,000 reports of outages at 9:30 a.m.
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