- Amazon’s AWS cloud service suffered an outage today
- That caused a cascade of websites to go offline or slow down.
- The worst seems to be over, but many places are still affected
If you’ve been feeling like the Internet is unusually slow these days, or have noticed that some of your favorite websites just aren’t working, you’re not going crazy. There has been a major outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) and since a large number of websites are hosted and running on this cloud platform, it has wreaked havoc on the web.
Everything from Reddit and Roblox to Snapchat and Slack have been affected, not to mention all of Amazon’s own services; As we noted in our live blog, around 1000 websites are expected to experience some form of difficulty. The damage has been extensive and has highlighted how much of the network depends on this single point of failure.
If you’ve been wondering if you’ll be able to access your usual sites or aren’t sure why the page you visited has slowed down, you’re in the right place. We’ve been checking Downdetector and have put together a list of all the major websites affected by the AWS outage. Just check below to see what is not working correctly.
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Ally
- Amazon (including Alexa and Prime Video)
- apple music
- Asana
- AT&T
- Availability
- Board
- Safety flashing
- Boost mobile
- Ring
- class link
- Coinbase
- SchoolBoard
- Coursera
- Dead by daylight
- Delta Airlines
- Duolingo
- epic games store
- fandel
- Look for
- fortnite
- go daddy
- GrubHub
- maximum HBO
- Hinge
- Hulu
- IMDb
- InstaCart
- Infrastructure
- League of Legends
- Life 360
- Lyft
- McDonald’s app
- microsoft office
- Microsoft Teams
- My fitness friend
- Navy Federal Credit Union
- New York Times
- Office 365
- Perspective
- PlayStation Network
- Pokémon Go
- Ring
- Robinhood
- Roblox
- roku
- Sign
- Loose
- Smart sheet
- snapchat
- Square
- starbucks
- Steam
- Strava
- T-Mobile
- Tidal
- Trello
- Truista
- Ubisoft Connect
- Venmo
- Verizon
- Virtual reality chat
- Anything
- word
- xbox
- xero
- Zillow
- Zoom
That’s a lot of massive websites, which indicates how widespread the problems are. All in all, it’s been a bad day for the Internet.
Fortunately, things have started to improve and many websites are recovering, at least partially, from the worst of the crisis. But the problems haven’t completely gone away, so you can expect lethargic loading times and severe inaccessibility for some time.
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