Amazon’s cloud unit AWS is experiencing an outage that has also disrupted several other global platforms, including Robinhood, Snapchat and Perplexity, according to the Downdetector website monitor.<\/p>\n
“We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” AWS said in an update on its status page.<\/p>\n
“This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API.<\/p>\n
“We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause.”<\/p>\n
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The social media app Snapchat is one of the global platforms affected by the ongoing outages. (ABC News: James Dunlevie)<\/p>\n
The physical infrastructure operated by AWS in its US-EAST-1 region to sustain its platforms is based in Northern Virginia, which encompasses parts of Washington DC.<\/p>\n
AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms that rely on its cloud infrastructure. AWS competes with Google’s and Microsoft’s cloud services.<\/p>\n
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of AI-powered answer engine Perplexity, said on Monday that he believed the root cause was an AWS issue.<\/p>\n
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and the trading app Robinhood also attributed the outages to AWS.<\/p>\n
Amazon.com, PrimeVideo and Alexa were all facing issues, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n
Paypal’s Venmo, online game platforms Roblox and Fortnite, graphic design platform Canva, workplace communications platform Zoom and educational languages platform Duolingo were all also experiencing outages, Downdetector reported.<\/p>\n
Reports of outages first began to spike about 4:30pm AEST, according to Downdetector.<\/p>\n
The monitor said issues with the AWS platform were most flagged in the eastern United States, while Amazon customers mostly reported problems with the retailer’s check-out systems, and a majority of Snapchat users were unable to access the platform’s mobile app.<\/p>\n
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