Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Internet Services
Many popular internet services were offline for hours on Monday due to an outage in Amazon's cloud network.
- Streaming platforms: Amazon's Prime Video, Disney+
- Messaging services: Signal, WhatsApp
- Other affected services: Perplexity AI, Fortnite, Airbnb, Snapchat, Duolingo
- Some UK banks, such as Lloyd's, were also impacted
Amazon's maintenance site reported that engineers scrambled to fix the underlying DNS issue after noticing "increased error rates" at 0711 GMT.
AWS handles nearly a third of the planet's cloud infrastructure market, powering millions of apps and websites around the world.
AWS's outage affected mobile telephone services and messaging apps in Europe, according to Downdetector.
Author's summary: Amazon cloud outage disrupts internet services.