Amazon Web Services (AWS), also known as one of the backbones of the internet, is experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services. Such as Fortnite, Zoom, Google, Microsoft 365, Ring, Snapchat, Apple Music, Microsoft Teams, Reddit, EA, Amazon Alexa, The New York Times, and many, many more.
Amazon's public status page reports major issues in the US-EAST-1 region, but this outage is affecting data centers and services globally.
As of 6:35 AM EST/ET, Amazon says that
“most AWS service operations are succeeding normally now.”
The first reported issue at the US-EAST-1 region was at 3:11 AM EST/ET. With this response from Amazon, “We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause. We will provide an update in 45 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share.”
At 5:27 AM ET, an update from Amazon says, “We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests.”
Now, this is a serious issue. We can't put all our trust into one company, even if they have 99% uptime a year; this can still cause issues. Half the internet was down because of one company.
For example, 2 years ago with the Cloudstrike outage, that took down 911 Dispatch, Air Traffic Control (ATC), Hospital systems, and services people need to survive. This can't happen.
Bluesky Posts on the AWS outage.
Ops hugs 🫂 to AWS engineers. Being paged in the middle of the night to bring half the internet back online is rough start to Monday.
I like how most of the internet can be taken out by an AWS or Google Cloud outage. It's so great. /s
