Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

Here are conscionable a fewer of the services impacted by the outage.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is presently experiencing a large outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. The AWS presumption checker is reporting that aggregate services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the institution is “investigating accrued mistake rates and latencies for aggregate AWS services successful the US-EAST-1 Region” — though outages are besides impacting services successful different regions globally.

Users connected Reddit are reporting that the Alexa astute adjunct is down and incapable to respond to queries oregon implicit requests, and successful my ain experience, I recovered that routines similar pre-set alarms are not functioning. The AWS contented besides appears to beryllium impacting platforms moving connected its unreality network, including Perplexity, Airtable, Canva, and the McDonalds app. The origin of the outage hasn’t been confirmed, and it’s unclear erstwhile regular work volition beryllium restored.

“Perplexity is down close now,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said connected X. “The basal origin is an AWS issue. We’re moving connected resolving it.”

The AWS dashboard archetypal reported issues affecting the US-EAST-1 Region astatine 3:11AM ET. “We are actively engaged and moving to some mitigate the contented and recognize basal cause. We volition supply an update successful 45 minutes, oregon sooner if we person further accusation to share,” Amazon said successful an update published astatine 3:51AM ET.

AWS outages successful the US-East-1 portion person created wide disruptions successful 2023, 2021, and 2020, forcing aggregate websites and platforms offline for respective hours earlier regular work was restored.