Leading cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services announced a significant outage on Monday that brought down a number of well-known websites.
In an update at 2:01 a.m. PDT, AWS mentioned an “operational issue” impacting “multiple services” and stated that it was “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.” It has impacted about 70 of its own services.
AWS announced shortly after that it was observing “significant signs of recovery.”
“Now, the majority of demands ought to be fulfilled. We’re still clearing out the backlog of pending requests. We’ll keep on releasing more details,” it continued.
Some services have returned at 3:03 a.m. PDT. We can attest to the recovery of worldwide services and features that depend on US-EAST-1. We’re still working toward complete resolution, and we’ll let you know when we get more details,” AWS stated.
Users reported issues with websites such as Amazon, Disney+, Lyft, the McDonald’s app, the New York Times, Reddit, Ring, Robinhood, Snapchat, T-Mobile, United Airlines, Venmo, and Verizon, according to the website Downdetector.
Customers of United and Delta complained on social media that they were unable to check in, drop off their baggage, or locate their reservations online.
While cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase reported that many customers were unable to use the site because of the outage, other social media users reported disruptions in cloud-based games, such as Roblox and Fortnite.
“We are experiencing significantly increased error rates, which are impacting functionality on Canva,” the graphic creation platform Canva reported. Our underlying cloud provider is having serious problems.
Perplexity is also impacted by the generated AI search tool. “AWS is the primary reason. In an X post, CEO Aravind Srinivas stated, “We’re working on resolving it.”
Major corporations have previously experienced technical difficulties; in July 2024, a cybersecurity firm called Crowdstrike’s flawed software update exposed the vulnerability of the world’s technology infrastructure by causing Microsoft Windows systems to go down, causing millions of dollars’ worth of chaos and causing thousands of flights to be grounded. Banks and hospitals were also impacted.
