AWS confirms service disruption <\/p>\n
In an update published at 12:34, Amazon Web Services confirmed \u201cincreased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region.\u201d
Engineers are \u201cimmediately engaged and actively working on both mitigating the issue and fully understanding the root cause,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n
Apps and websites impacted by the outage
Platforms reportedly affected include:<\/p>\n
Amazon<\/p>\n
Canva<\/p>\n
Duolingo<\/p>\n
Snapchat<\/p>\n
Ring<\/p>\n
Roblox<\/p>\n
Life360<\/p>\n
MyFitnessPal<\/p>\n
Prime Video<\/p>\n
Fortnite<\/p>\n
Wordle<\/p>\n
Coinbase<\/p>\n
PlayStation<\/p>\n
Vodafone<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/p>\n
HMRC and Xero<\/p>\n
AWS, which powers much of the modern internet infrastructure, said the issue stems from its cloud computing services \u2014 particularly Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud \u2014 both essential for running storage and server functions for client companies.<\/p>\n
Global disruption traced to early morning hours<\/p>\n
The outage began around 8am in the UK (midnight Pacific time), when AWS systems detected elevated error rates. As one of the most relied-upon providers of cloud infrastructure globally \u2014 generating $108 billion in revenue last year \u2014 any disruption to AWS can have sweeping effects across the internet.<\/p>\n
AWS engineers working to restore services<\/p>\n
As of the latest update, AWS engineers continue to work to fully resolve the issue and identify its root cause. Users worldwide are advised to check their Downdetector sites for live outage updates and service restoration progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AWS confirms service disruption In an update published at 12:34, Amazon Web Services confirmed \u201cincreased error rates and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,108,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-238289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-social-media","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}