• A major AWS outage is disrupting top apps and websites globally, including Amazon, Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, Canva, and more.
• Services running on AWS cloud, like Perplexity, Airtable, and the McDonald’s app, are also affected by increased errors and latency.
• Banks including Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland, along with Amazon services like PrimeVideo and Alexa, are experiencing widespread disruptions

AWS

So basically not all of the internet is down… just some of it. Many of the world’s biggest websites and apps are down due to an outage affecting Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services. This includes Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, Canva, and more.  The AWS issue also appears to be impacting platforms running on its cloud network, including Perplexity, Airtable, Canva, and the McDonalds app.

Services Down

The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues. It is also reporting that it is  “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.” However,  outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.

This has happened before as AWS outages in the US-East-1 region have created widespread disruptions in 2023, 2021, and 2020. This forced multiple websites and platforms offline for several hours before regular service was restored.

This outage is also impacting banks including Lloyds and its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland. Lloyds and its subsidiaries report impact to its services. It has received criticism that it should confine its usage to the UK or Europe rather than relying on services that are running out of the US.
The outage is also impacting Amazon’s major services like Amazon.com, PrimeVideo and Alexa. Users have reported Alexa being unable to respond to queries or complete requests.