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Amazon Web Services have suffered a major outage Monday morning, leaving millions without the ability to use their favorite apps.
The folks at Amazon are having a tough Monday morning. As most of America is still waking up, Amazon Web Services employees are scrambling to try and solve a major outage that is affecting millions of people around the world. A long list of major apps and streaming services are affected, and the outage is creating a nightmare for AWS.
Key Details:
- Pure static: Amazon Web Services are suffering an outage affecting millions.
- Big name apps: The issues have affected platforms like Reddit, Roblox, Snapchat, and others.
- Try it now?: As of 6:35 a.m. ET, Amazon says the issue has been “fully mitigated.”
Social media reports about problems with major AWS-based platforms exploded in the early morning hours on Monday. AWS first reported an issue at 12:11 a.m. ET. A laundry list of major companies use AWS tools and storage to help build out and host their web-based products, meaning a huge number of customers around the world have been affected.
Services and platforms like Fortnite, Reddit, Roblox, Snapchat, and the messaging service Signal have become unusable for many customers. There are conflicting reports as to whether or not Amazon’s services like Prime Video have been affected; Advanced Television reports that Prime Video and Amazon’s e-commerce platform were not hurt by the outage, but NBC News says Amazon and Prime Video are among the websites seeing issues.
Amazon says that as of 6:35 a.m. ET, the database problem at the root of the outage has been “fully mitigated.” The company also says that delays could continue to affect customers globally as things get back to normal on sites and platforms hosted by AWS. The issue was caused from an error with DynamoDB, which manages database tables and indexes, Amazon reports.
When a cloud computing entity like AWS goes out, it causes such major problems because so many companies use its services and tools. The AWS segment of the company brought in $107 billion all on its own in the 2024 fiscal year. It’s also a public relations nightmare for Amazon, and a different kind of nightmare for customers across the world who can’t access wanted or needed services.
Did the Amazon Web Services issue affect your morning? Tell us about it in the comments if you are trying to dig out from those problems this morning.
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