Amazon’s cloud service unit AWS suddenly went down on Monday, due to which many companies around the world are facing connectivity problems. Amazon itself is facing this problem and many websites and apps have come to a standstill.
Amazon Cloud Outage: Many major websites and apps came to a standstill due to technical glitches in Amazon’s cloud service AWS. According to outage tracking website DownDetector, services of several popular online platforms, including Amazon’s cloud division AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat and Perplexity AI, were either down or stalled on Monday, October 20.
Why did the problem arise?
The problem was caused by a technical glitch in Amazon Web Services (AWS), which operates a large portion of the Internet’s backend infrastructure. DownDetector reported more than 2,000 outage incidents for AWS in the US, tracing users experiencing issues accessing a variety of digital services and apps. Even Amazon’s own ecosystem could not survive due to this problem. Amazon.com, Prime Video and Alexa all faced connectivity issues.
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AWS engineers working to fix the problem
Perplexity CEO Arvind Srinivas confirmed in a post that the root cause of the issue was an AWS-related technical glitch that temporarily affected the company’s operations. Intermittent outages were also seen across several popular apps and websites, including Venmo, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by PayPal. Let us tell you that due to this problem, the shares of Amazon also declined. AWS engineers are working to fix the problem.
List of sites and apps affected by AWS outage
Amazon.com
Prime Video
Alexa
Robinhood
snapchat
Perplexity AI
Venmo
Canvas by Instructure
Crunchyroll
Roblox
whatnot
Rainbow Six Siege
coinbase
Canva
Duolingo
goodreads
Ring
The New York Times
life360
Fortnite
Apple TV
Verizon
chime
McDonald’s App
CollegeBoard
Wordle
PUBG Battlegrounds
OpenAI
Vimeo
Twitch
Shopify
Google Maps
Claude (Anthropic)
Cursor
Dialpad
Microsoft Azure
reCAPTCHA
YouTube
Gmail
Khan Academy
npm
dragon ball
AT&T
DoorDash
spotify
Google Cloud
Discord
Character.AI
Rocket League
cloudflare
Google Nest
Pokémon Trading Card Game
FuboTV
High Level
box
Etsy
Google Drive
MailChimp
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