Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has brought down online services including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, fortniteand more. He AWS Health Checker reports that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US EAST-1 region,” although the outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.
Users on Reddit They report that the Alexa smart assistant is down and can’t answer queries or complete requests, and in my own experience I’ve found that routines like preset alarms don’t work. The AWS issue also appears to be affecting platforms running on its cloud network, including Perplexity, Airtable, Canva, and the McDonalds app. The cause of the outage has not been confirmed and it is unclear when regular service will be restored.
“Perplexity has decreased at this time,” CEO of Perplexity Aravind Srinivas said in X. “The root cause is an AWS issue. We are working to resolve it.”
The AWS Dashboard first reported issues affecting the US EAST-1 region at 3:11 a.m. ET. “We are actively engaged and working to mitigate the issue and understand the root cause. We will provide an update in 45 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share,” Amazon said in an update posted at 3:51 a.m. ET.
