Amazon Cloud Outage Disrupts Internet Services
Several popular internet services, including streaming platforms, messaging services, and banks, experienced an outage on Monday due to a disruption in Amazon's cloud network.
- Streaming platforms: Amazon Prime Video, Disney+
- Messaging services: Signal, WhatsApp
- Other services: Perplexity AI, Fortnite, Airbnb, Snapchat, Duolingo
- Banks: Lloyd's (UK)
According to Downdetector, a website monitoring internet problems, mobile telephone services and messaging apps were also affected in Europe.
AWS handles nearly a third of the planet's cloud infrastructure market, powering millions of apps and websites around the world.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineers worked to fix the underlying DNS issue after becoming aware of "increased error rates" at 0711 GMT.
Author's summary: Amazon cloud outage disrupts internet services.