Significant portions of the internet are experiencing poor loading or crashes due to issues with various Amazon Web Services cloud servers. Because Amazon's vast network of data centers supports many of the things you interact with online, including this website, any outage has tremendous ramifications, as we've seen in prior AWS outages. People began reporting issues at 10:45 a.m. ET, and by 6 p.m. ET, the AWS Status page said, "Many services have already recovered, however, we are working toward full recovery across services."
INTERNAL AMAZON APPS WERE DOWN AS Too, CUTTING OFF DELIVERY DRIVERS AND STALLING WAREHOUSE ROBOTS.
While some AWS-dependent services have been restored, the internet remains slower and more unreliable than usual. The most critical apps affected by the outage maybe those used by Amazon workers. Reddit postings from Amazon Flex, warehouse, and delivery workers, according to CNBC, claim that the applications that monitor parcels, inform them where to go, and generally keep your products on schedule have also gone down.
Disney Plus and Netflix streaming services, as well as games like PUBG, League of Legends, and Valorant, have been reported to be unavailable. We also saw some issues with Amazon.com and other Amazon products such as the Alexa AI assistant, Kindle ebooks, Amazon Music, and Ring or Wyze security cameras. The list of services with simultaneous surges in outage complaints on DownDetector includes practically every well-known name: Tinder, Roku, Coinbase, both Cash App and Venmo, and so on.
There were reports of issues connecting to Amazon's instances and the AWS Management Console, which regulates their access to the servers, from network administrators all around the world. Amazon's official status website published an update with statements confirming the outage after nearly an hour of trouble.
[11:26 AM PST] We are seeing impact to multiple AWS APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue is also affecting some of our monitoring and incident response tooling, which is delaying our ability to provide updates. Services impacted include: EC2, Connect, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena, Timestream, and Chime and other AWS Services in US-EAST-1.
The root cause of this issue is an impairment of several network devices in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are pursuing multiple mitigation paths in parallel, and have seen some signs of recovery, but we do not have an ETA for full recovery at this time. Root logins for consoles in all AWS regions are affected by this issue, however customers can login to consoles other than US-EAST-1 by using an IAM role for authentication.
Users elsewhere may not have experienced as many troubles as those in the US-EAST-1 AWS region in Virginia, and even if you were, it might have manifested as slightly delayed loading as the network diverted your requests someplace else.
Updated at 3:41 p.m. ET on December 7th: Information concerning the effects on warehouse and delivery personnel has been included, as well as the most recent status bulletin.
Updated at 7:20 p.m. ET on December 7th: Information concerning the effects on warehouse and delivery personnel has been included, as well as the most recent status bulletin.