The Amazon Web Services outage caused major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many applications, websites, governments, universities, and companies.
on detector, A website that tracks online outages, users have reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app, and many more.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Website that provides updates Services in the eastern US region have been disrupted and engineers are working to understand the cause of the problem.
But at 5:27 a.m. EDT, AWS began reporting progress, saying, “We are seeing significant signs of recovery.”
A little more than half an hour later, the company said: “We continue to see recovery in most” of the affected services.
At 6:35 a.m. EDT, AWS said, “The underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS service operations are now running normally,” but said some requests may slow down “as we work toward a full resolution.”
Several sites and apps tracked by Downdetector showed a significant decrease in reported issues around 6:15 a.m. EST.
AWS customers include some of the world’s largest companies and organizations.
“Much of the world now relies on these three or four big cloud computing companies that provide the underlying infrastructure that when there is a problem like this, it can have a real impact across a wide range, a wide range” of online services, said Patrick Burgess, a cybersecurity expert at BCS, a UK-based Chartered IT institute.