Amazon Web Services is down, and the ripple effect is huge. The cloud giant’s outage has knocked out everything from Snapchat to Reddit to online banking apps.
Tried logging into Snapchat or tuning into Apple Music today, only to be faced with error messages and lag? You’re not alone. Many major apps and websites are down due to issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a total of 6.5 million user reports of outages across 1,000 different companies. AWS is a cloud computing infrastructure that many other web services rely on internationally. The issue is believed to relate to an underlying problem with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), DynamoDB, a DNS failure, and «significant» API issues.
AWS is used by an immensely long list of companies, including Duolingo, Chime, Reddit, Ring, Canva, and many more. As a result, this means that the outrage is wide-reaching and impacts a massive section of the internet. This is reflected not only by pop-up messages and connection errors, but also by reports on Downdetector. AWS itself had 5,704 outage reports at its peak at 3:55 AM EST.
