Amazon Web Services “showing signs of recovery”<\/p>\n
But new apps and sites keep getting hit<\/p>\n
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If you’ve tried to log into a number of websites or apps today, you might have noticed a few issues. Apps not signing in properly, websites failing to load. Heck, according to one report, even Amazon’s automated parcel return service is struggling. And that’s because Amazon’s Web Services has suffered a pretty major downage. <\/p>\n
The outage seemed to begin at around 4am ET, with apps like Snapchat and Duolingo being amongst the first hit. The problem spread rapidly, with banking websites and apps falling prey, as well as messaging apps like Signal, and heck, even blockbuster gaming hit Fortnite was hit by the problems.<\/p>\n
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Amazon’s engineers were on the problem within minutes of the problem being discovered, but despite that, the issues have persisted. According to DownDetector’s front page, most of the early victims of the outage have started to recover. But a proclaimation that signs of recovery were obvious proved to be premature, as the outage has since spread to Reddit<\/a> recently. Not even your hot drinks are safe, as Starbucks is suffering under the outage’s yoke. <\/p>\n So much of the internet is reliant on one provider<\/p>\n Which makes outages like this inevitable<\/p>\n Amazon Web Services is an enormous provider of cloud computing, and its data centers hold the vital runnings of millions of apps and websites, and even games like Fortnite<\/a>. It’s so large it’s actually one of Amazon’s biggest divisions, and it’s largely pre-eminent in the space. As such, when it suffers problems, almost everyone gets hit all at once, and the internet takes something of a sick day. As I write, more and more apps and services are struggling, and while Amazon’s engineers are likely working overtime to get this fixed, there’s no obvious sign when this will finally end. <\/p>\n![\"Amazon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/amazon-logo-above-an-open-shipping-box-with-light-rays-coming-out.png\"){kind=logo}
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