Amazon cloud computing outage disrupts Snapchat, Robinhood and many other online services
An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world The operation provides remote computing services to various governments universities and companies including The Associated Press On DownDetector a website that tracks online outages users broadcasted issues with Snapchat Roblox Fortnite online broker Robinhood the McDonald s app and multiple other services Coinbase and Signal both mentioned on X that they were experiencing issues related to the AWS outage The first signs of trouble emerged at around a m Eastern Time when Amazon Web Services announced on its Wellness Dashboard that it is assessing increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST- Region Later the company revealed that there were major error rates and that engineers were actively working on the trouble About two hours later AWS commented in an update that it applied initial mitigations and it rapidly followed up to say We are seeing major signs of recovery Most of requests should now be succeeding We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests AWS customers include various of the world s biggest businesses and organizations So much of the world now relies on these three or four big cloud compute companies who provide the underlying infrastructure that when there s an issue like this it can be really impactful across a broad range a broad spectrum of online services stated Patrick Burgess a cybersecurity expert at U K -based BCS The Chartered Institute for IT AP writer Mustakim Hasnath in London contributed to this review Source
