Amazon services including Prime and Alexaand also other internet services According to Downdetector, including Snapchat, Roblox, Lyft and others, there appears to be a glitch.
According to the company, the problems began shortly after 3 a.m. ET. Downdetector.
Amazon Web ServicesThe status page first reported the issue at 3:11 a.m. ET. The page confirmed that engineers are investigating the ongoing issue and have potentially identified the root cause as of 5 a.m. ET.
According to Downdetector, as of 6 a.m. ET, AWS reports that services are being restored, consistent with a decrease in reported issues at affected sites.
Many sites and services rely on AWS to operate, which can cause a ripple effect on the Internet when broken.
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Sites affected by AWS outage
Here is a partial list of websites or services affected by AWS, according to Downdetector:
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Snapchat
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Amazon
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Roblox
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Robinhood
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Amazon Alexa
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Ring
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HBO Max
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chime
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Venmo
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Elevator
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Prime Video
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Fortnite
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Disney+
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Hulu
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Year
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Signal
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IMDb
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United Airlines
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Amazon Music
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Reddit
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AT&T
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My fitness buddy
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Steam
It's important to note that not all services were completely disabled due to the outage. Reddit, for example, report decreased performance as it concerns problems in the “Reddit infrastructure”. The problems, although not clearly related to the AWS outage, were observed at the same time.
Slack is also experiencing serious performance issues. assigned to the “upstream provider”, but the service is still running on Monday morning.
This is a developing story. More information will be provided as it becomes available.
