As you might have already noticed, a number of big websites and platforms are currently experiencing a serious outage around the world, with Snapchat, Duolingo, and Canva among those affected.
The outage has affected banks, as well as online platforms, and is no doubt causing disruption around the globe as people struggle to get work done or access their finances.
The reason behind all of this is a problem at Amazon Web Services.
What is Amazon Web Services?
Amazon Web Services provides the infrastructure behind a load of websites that we all know and love, propping up a large chunk of the internet.
When it has a problem, that has a knock on effect, as we are seeing today.
It’s the cloud computing division of Amazon, and underpins many apps and websites of large companies.
According to a statement on its website, there are ‘increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region’.
Fear not though, as they assure us that engineers are ‘immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause’.
Hopefully they can get it all back online as soon as possible.
In the meantime, here is a full list of sites that we know to be down currently.
Well, a full list of sites that we know are down anyway - the list keeps on growing and growing.
- Amazon.com
- Prime Video
- Alexa
- Ring
- Goodreads
- The New York Times
- Snapchat
- Slack
- Zoom
- Substack
- Robinhood
- Venmo
- Chime
- Coinbase
- Xero
- HMRC (UK tax authority)
- Roblox
- Fortnite
- PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds)
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Clash Royale
- Clash of Clans
- Crunchyroll
- Apple TV
- Canvas (Instructure)
- CollegeBoard
- Canva
- Duolingo
- MyFitnessPal
- Strava
- Whatnot
- Life360
- Verizon
- Perplexity AI
- Flickr
- McDonald’s app
- Wordle
- Xbox Network
- PlayStation Network