New Delhi: A global outage has hit the Amazon Web Service on Monday has put on hold quite a few websites and services which including Snapchat, Amazon Prime, Perpexity, Fortnite, Canva and even Duolingo. Messages on the maintenance site for the AWS confirmed a climb in “error rates” for quite a few services and said their engineers were working to quickly restore functioning.
Amazon are in the process of full recovery, with their own ecosystem not being spared, including with things like Amazon.com, Prime Video and even Alexa having connectivity issues. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas has confirmed that the disruptions were due to the AWS-related issue, which affected the company’s operations at present.
Apps hit by the AWS outage
- Google Nest
- CollegeBoard
- PUBG Battlegrounds
- Ring
- Amazon.com
- Robinhood
- Spotify
- HighLevel
- Venmo
- Google Meet
- Whatnot
- Canvas by Instructure
- Apple TV
- FuboTV
- Discord
- Wordle
- Crunchyroll
- Mailchimp
- McDonald’s App
- Dialpad
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Gmail
- Twitch
- Roblox
- Microsoft Azure
- Perplexity AI
- The New York Times
- Chime
- Google Maps
- OpenAI
- Google Drive
- Dragon Ball
- Google Cloud
- DoorDash
- Etsy
- Claude (Anthropic)
- Canva
- Duolingo
- Khan Academy
- Prime Video
- AT&T
- Snapchat
- FuboTV
- Box
- Google
- Character.AI
- NPM
- Rocket League
- Cloudflare
- Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Goodreads
- Cursor
- Verizon
- Life360
- YouTube
- Coinbase
- Alexa
- ReCAPTCHA
- Shopify
- Fortnite
Even though quite a few services have resumed, users across social media are reporting access issues throughout Monday afternoon. In apps like Snapchat, users have reported losing all their friends on the app. Amazon have issued some fresh recommendations themselves as they work towards completely recovery of the AWS system.
Their statement said, “We recommend EC2 Instance launches that are not targeted to a specific Availability Zone (AZ) so that EC2 has flexibility in selecting the appropriate AZ. The impairment in new EC2 launches also affects services such as RDS, ECS, and Glue.”
They also said that they recommended that Auto Scaling Groups were configured to use multiple AZs, and hence Auto Scaling can manage EC2 instance launches automatically.