Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has affected online services including Amazon Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite , and many others. The AWS health checker reports that many services have been “impacted” by operational issues and that the company is “ investigating elevated error rates and delays for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region ,” although the outage is also affecting services in other regions worldwide.
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Users on Reddit are reporting that Alexa is down and unable to answer questions or complete requests. Routines like preset notifications are also down. The AWS issue also appears to be affecting platforms running on its cloud network, including Perplexity, Airtable, Canva , and the McDonald’s app . The cause of the outage has not been confirmed, and it’s unclear when normal operation will be restored.
“Perplexity is currently down,” Perplexity CEO Aravind SrinivasX. “The root cause is an AWS issue. We are working to resolve it.”
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The outage has caused disruption for many users and businesses that rely on AWS services for their daily operations. AWS is one of the largest cloud in the world, and such outages can have far-reaching consequences. Users are expressing their frustration on social media, while businesses are trying to manage the impact on their productivity.
AWS has faced similar issues in the past, but the company usually manages to restore its services relatively quickly. However, the current outage appears to be more widespread, affecting multiple regions and services. The company has not given a specific timeline for the restoration of services, but its technicians are working intensively to resolve the issue.
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Users are urged to monitor updates from AWS and regularly check the status of their services. In the meantime, many businesses are looking at alternatives to reduce their reliance on a single cloud provider in order to avoid similar issues in the future.
