Several of the world’s most popular apps are down or not working as Amazon Web Services (AWS) experiences an outage, causing a significant portion of the internet to go down.
Snapchat and Fortnite are down while Reddit, Disney+,Roblox, Canva, Duolingo, Ring Doorbell and more are among those affected, according to Down Detector. “Amazon Web Services (#AWS) infrastructure collapsed and thousands of their clients are facing issues (everything from #Asana to Crunchyroll, McDonald’s and #Roblox),” Game Union TV reported on X.
AWS is a robust cloud computing platform that provides a variety of IT services online and is utilized by millions of businesses. Numerous companies have issued apologies for the inconvenience while users have reported outages and popular apps not working.
“Please be aware that due to a widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, you may experience a temporary disruption in our services,” Cielco Wigle Inc announced. “This issue is not specific to Cielo, but it is affecting numerous digital services worldwide, including ours,” added the smart thermostat company.
Yala Softwares posted: “Temporary Service Disruption. Please note that due to a widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, you may experience a temporary disruption in our services. The issue is affecting numerous digital services worldwide, including our services.”, reports the Mirror US.
A spokesperson for Coinbase stated: “We’re aware many users are currently unable to access Coinbase due to an AWS outage. Our team is working on the issue and we’ll provide updates here. All funds are safe.”
All of the apps and websites affected or suffering outages related to the AWS outage include:
- Snapchat
- Fortnite
- Amazon Prime, Video, Alexa and other services
- Max
- McDonalds
- Hulu
- Venmo
- Ring Doorbell
- Disney+
- IMDB
- United Airlines
- Lyft
- Roblox
- Chime
- Robinhood
- Blink Security
- Spectrum
- Canvas by Infrastructure
- Epic Games Store
- VRChat
- Life 360
- Roku
- Signal
- Dead by Daylight
- Fan Duel
- Clash Royale
- Simpli Safe
- T-Mobile
- New York Times
- Verizon
- AT&T
- Rocket League
- Playstation Network
- Steam
- Canva
- Ubisoft Connect
- Rainbow Siege
- Pokemon Go
More details of other affected sites and apps can be found here.
Amazon’s service status website recently reported that “multiple AWS services” are grappling with “increased error rates”.
“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,” Amazon stated on the page.
In a subsequent update, Amazon confirmed “significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region. “This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region as well,” the company added. Amazon warned that customers might be unable to create or update support cases during the issues and said engineers were “immediately engaged.”
DownDetector has received over 6,000 reports from affected US customers after the issues began shortly after 3am EDT.
Snapchat users have been greeted with a message stating “service unavailable” followed by a C14A error code when trying to access the photo-sharing app.
Roblox players have reported all games as unavailable and thumbnails not loading. Meanwhile, Ring doorbell users have reported being unable to log into the app. The Duolingo app displayed a message stating it is undergoing a “maintenance break”, while Worlde players have been asked to: “Please try again later.”
The McDonald’s app crash has left hundreds of users in the lurch, contributing to the internet meltdown.
“aws being down is ruining my monday please send help,” lamented one user. “My nephew’s losing his mind because Roblox isn’t working,” another shared.
One user humorously suggested: “Can someone please go to Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers and unplug them, wait 30 seconds, then plug them back in?”.
