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
- Mobile telephone services and some UK banks, such as Lloyd's, were also impacted
Amazon Web Services (AWS) handles nearly a third of the planet's cloud infrastructure market, powering millions of apps and websites.
AWS's maintenance site reported "increased error rates" hitting multiple services at 0711 GMT.
AWS engineers scrambled to fix the underlying DNS issue.
Author's summary: Amazon cloud outage disrupts internet services.