An Amazon Web Services outage is causing major disruptions around the world. The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.
On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many others.
Amazon Web Services said on the site where it provides updates that services in its eastern U.S. region were disrupted and engineers were working to understand what was causing the problem.
AWS customers include some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations.
At 5:27 a.m. EDT, Amazon Web Services said, “We are seeing significant signs of recovery.”
A little more than a half-hour later, AWS reported that, “We continue to observe recovery across most” of the affected services.
Many sites and apps tracked by Downdetector were showing significant reductions in reported issues at about 6:15 a.m. EDT.
