Amazon Outage Hits Major Apps and Websites Worldwide
A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted numerous major websites and apps across the world on Monday. The company confirmed increased error rates and delays in its US-EAST-1 region, prompting widespread connectivity failures.
Apps and platforms affected
Services impacted included gaming platforms like Fortnite and Roblox, social media apps such as Snapchat and Signal, financial platforms like Coinbase and Venmo, and Amazon’s own services including Alexa and Prime Video.
Recovery efforts
AWS engineers worked on multiple paths to restore services, with many platforms reporting recovery within a few hours. The outage underlined the strong dependence of global digital infrastructure on a small number of cloud providers.
