The global internet space has witnessed a major outage today, starting at 7 AM UK time. The disruption includes mobile banking services, apps, websites, and productive platforms such as Canva. We have more below.
The outage has been linked to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
What is Amazon Web Services?
You may not have heard of this- Amazon Web Services. But in the internet landscape, it’s one of the biggest things. It is a cloud service that AWS describes as the most comprehensive in the world, which provides companies with access to servers and databases.
The company leverages this facility to run its services. They don’t have to use physical infrastructure of their own, thanks to AWS’s cloud services.
Also: T-Mobile WiFi Calling, requirements, set up on Android, iPhone, tariff
What services are affected due to the AWS outage?
Here are the services in alphabetical order that are affected by the AWS issue right now (From Downdetector).
- Amazon
- Amazon Alexa
- Amazon Music
- Amazon Prime Video
- Amazon Web Services
- Ancestry
- Asana
- Atlassian
- Bank Of Scotland
- Blink Security
- BT
- Canva
- Clash Of Clans
- Clash Royale
- Coinbase
- Dead By Daylight
- Duolingo
- EE
- Epic Games Store
- Eventbrite
- Flickr
- Fortnite
- Halifax
- Hay Day
- HMRC
- IMDB
- Jira
- Life360
- Lloyds Bank
- My Fitness Pal
- Peloton
- Perplexity AI
- Playstation Network
- Pokemon Go
- Ring
- Roblox
- Rocket League
- Signal
- Sky
- Slack
- Smartsheet
- Snapchat
- Square
- Tidal
- Vodafone
- Wordle
- Xero
- Zoom
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, said, “Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We’re working on resolving it.”
AWS has said that it witnessed increased error rates and latencies for multiple services and is engaged in finding the issue and restoring the system as soon as possible. ThousandEyes highlights that much of the issue seems to be concentrated largely in the US, especially in Virginia, the de facto hub of data centers.
Don’t miss: What is vendor lock-in in telecom industry? Risk, benefits, how to avoid
Most out-of-service platforms are updating their customers regarding the outage. We expect AWS to bring back its services live in the next few hours.