While many people think of Amazon as a great place to score some deals, it also owns Amazon Web Services. This server system hosts a significant portion of the digital world, from Amazon Alexa devices to fast food apps and more.
According to several outlets and Down Detector, a website that tracks real-time outage information, AWS has been hit with a major outage today (June 7). The Verge reports that the issue appears to be tied to an issue with US-EAST-1 region that started at around 3 p.m. ET today. A look at the AWS Health Dashboard confirms that the company’s Northern Virginia servers are experiencing Increased error rates and latency issues, which is causing severe degradation.
Update: At 6:03 p.m. ET, AWS says “Many AWS services are now fully recovered and marked Resolved on this event. We are continuing to work to fully recover all services.”
What services powered by AWS went down
As of writing, here are all the services that were down or experiencing some problems according to Down Detector. It appears Microsoft Azure is also experiencing some issues, which may be related.
- Amazon Web Services
- McDonald’s app
- Amazon
- Southwest
- Amazon Alexa
- Pluto TV
- Ally
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Seige
- Microsoft 365
- Destiny
- FIFA
- IMDb
- VRChat
- Nike Plus
- Delta Air Lines
- TikTok
- Fortnite
- Hinge
- Overwatch 2
The Amazon Web Services Twitter account has not yet given an update regarding this situation. But the official AWS Service Health Dashboard does have up-to-date intel on what’s happening.
We will continue updating this story as it develops.
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