There was a sharp spike in users of Amazon Web Services (AWS) reporting issues early on Monday morning, according to Downdetector, leading to outages across the many websites, apps, and platforms that use AWS.
According to the website that monitors service provision failures, just before 3 am Eastern Time (ET) on Monday, users reporting issues with AWS suddenly began to increase – with 476 reports at 2.54 am ET. By 3.39 am ET there were 13,044 reports of issues with Amazon’s web services.
A map produced by the service showed there has been a high concentration of reports in New York City, St Louis (MO), Boston (MA), Los Angeles (CA), Seattle (WA), Dallas (TX), Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), and Detroit (MI).
According to Downdetector, issues have been reported across a wide range of sites, although it’s not clear if they are connected to the AWS outage or a different issue. Problems have been reported on:
- Instructure
- Crunchyroll
- Roblox
- Whatnot
- Venmo
- Amazon Alexa
- Amazon
- Coinbase
- Snapchat
- Canva
- Duolingo
- Goodreads
- Ring
- The New York Times
- Life360
- Fortnite
- Apple TV
- Verizon
- Robinhood
- Chime
- Perplexity AI
- McDonald’s App
- CollegeBoard
- Wordle
- PUBG Battlegrounds
Users have also taken to social media to report the issues, with some asking why “everything was down,” and others saying services weren’t connecting despite having working Wi-Fi connection.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.