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2025-10-20T17:51:57.758Z
Amazon says services are recovering (again)
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Amazon engineers are hard at work pushing out a patch, and Amazon’s shared another hopeful update. A 1:38 p.m. ET update on the AWS health dashboard says its internal systems are “now showing signs of recovering in a few Availability Zones (AZs) in the US-EAST-1 Region.” The issue seems to have originated from a system responsible for monitoring network load, and Amazon recently implemented additional measures to help that system recover. The company also noted it’s working on restoring functionality to launch new instances of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) — virtual machines used to develop cloud-based applications — after temporarily limiting them to do damage control on the wider disruption.
“We are applying mitigations to the remaining AZs at which point we expect launch errors and network connectivity issues to subside,” reads AWS’ latest update. Of course, Amazon said as much earlier today too, so take it with a grain of salt.
2025-10-20T17:24:48.013Z
A promising turn?
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Venmo and PayPal are used by thousands of individuals and businesses to send and receive money, so it being offline for any stretch of time is a serious headache. DownDetector reports look like they’ve started to taper off, down to just under 6,000 from a peak of 8,300 a few hours ago. Given the game of whack-a-mole Amazon has been playing all day to push out a fix, don’t get too excited. We’ve already seen AWS outage reports slowly start to creep back up again.
2025-10-20T16:50:39.396Z
Venmo is the latest domino
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Venmo doesn’t have an official status page, but a section for Venmo is listed on the main PayPal status page, and right now it’s marked as “Service Disruption” though weirdly all the functions are still marked Operational.