Amazon, Roblox, Snapchat, The New York Times’ Wordle and 23 other websites and apps are down at the same time. Downdetector shows disruptions began at around 7.30am, with hundreds of people saying apps are not working. Amazon Web Services provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to many government departments, universities and businesses, including The Associated Press, which allows them to provide online services.
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has caused connectivity issues for people and businesses around the world, with popular apps and services such as Snapchat, Venmo, Netflix, Fortnite, and numerous banks and airlines seeing problem reported.
Amazon said that it was working to identify and fix the problem, which the company says originated in an EC2 internal network. But disruptions have continued to be reported throughout the day.
The outage monitoring service Downdetector said that it had received more than 11 million reports of connectivity issues since the beginning of the outage, with more than 2,500 companies seeing an increase in reported issues. Experts have said the toll of the outage could run into the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Some analysts have pointed out that the outage underscores the potential risks and pitfalls of the highly concentrated nature of cloud services, with just three companies accounting for more than half of the global market.
