Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been hit with a major outage, affecting many services and games, including Amazon’s own Prime Video and Alexa.
AWS’ on-demand computing infrastructure is used by many companies in Canada, the US, and other global markets. The company’s cloud-based services are currently ungoing an outage, affecting many companies, government bodies, and individuals who utilize the service. This includes Epic Games, which is currently seeing major disruptions in the operations of Fortnite.
The AWS dashboard first began noting issues for the US-EAST-1 Region at around 3 AM ET. At the time, the company stated that it was “actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand the root cause.” As of the time of writing
Other major companies affected by the outage include Perplexity, an AI startup specializing in exchanging crypto. “Perplexity is down right now,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said on X (formerly Twitter). “The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it.”
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Roblox, Clash Royale, and Clash of Clans are among the other games currently affected by the outage. Paypal’s Venmo and Lyft are also affected in the US. Snapchat is also experiencing issues throughout the AWS outage. Even the main page of Amazon.ca isn’t loading properly either. Apps such as Duolingo and even Toronto-based Wealthsimple aren’t loading properly.
AWS is one of the largest cloud-based infrastructures. Amazon’s service is one of the largest used by many companies and competes with Google’s and Microsoft’s own cloud services.
As of 7:08 AM ET, Amazon states, ” We are continuing to work towards full recovery for EC2 launch errors, which may manifest as an Insufficient Capacity Error.” The next update from Amazon is expected by 8 AM ET.
Oct 20 9:13 AM PDT: Amazon now says, “We have taken additional mitigation steps to aid the recovery of the underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers and are now seeing connectivity and API recovery for AWS services. We have also identified and are applying next steps to mitigate throttling of new EC2 instance launches. We will provide an update by 10:00 AM PDT.”
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