Amazon AWS outage breaks internet
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The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.
The 15-hour disruption to Amazon Web Services, a cloud-based computing service, on Monday shook internet users around the world, disrupting everything from travel to financial transactions — and underscoring the fragility of a system reliant on only a handful of tech giants.
Users reported outages with Snapchat, WhatsApp, Signal and Zoom, as well as Google and YouTube. AWS said the underlying issue has been resolved.
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products.
Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services, cited a problem at its data center in Northern Virginia. The outage highlighted the fragility of global internet infrastructure.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud provider behind many of these platforms, is at fault for the disruption. It began reporting faults across multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region at midnight Pacific Time, with the underlying DNS issue fully mitigated by 3AM PDT.
This is because there's been an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage across all regions, including the US, EU, and even over here in the currently very dreary UK. It looks like this might be clearing up already,
AWS outage has affected services including Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, Zoom, Fortnite, Ring, Venmo, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Perplexity AI.
Some of the big names that are down this morning include Snapchat, Slack, Ring, Signal, Virgin Media, BT, EE and Sky, as well as Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage Monday, impacting multiple websites in the US-EAST-1 Region, according to the company's health dashboard. Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite were just a few of the platforms experiencing issues following the outage.
It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.