Amazon cloud computing outage knocks out Zoom, Roblox and many other online services
The AWS outage began around 3 a.m. ET, affecting 79 services including Snapchat and Roblox, with over 2,681 complaints reported early Monday, AWS said recovery is underway.
- On Monday, Amazon Web Services experienced an operational failure that caused major disruptions globally starting around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time, affecting Snapchat, Robinhood, Venmo, Roblox, and Fortnite.
- Amazon Web Services said the AWS Health Dashboard showed increased error rates and latencies in the US‑EAST‑1 Region, confirming DNS issues with the DynamoDB API endpoint and describing it as an operational problem.
- DownDetector recorded over 11 million user reports at more than 2,500 companies and nearly 15,000 incident reports at the peak, while Canvas outage affected 50% of college and university students.
- Around 6 a.m. Eastern Time, Amazon Web Services said it saw recovery across most services, and later after 5 p.m. applied initial mitigation with significant recovery signs.
- Cybersecurity expert Patrick Burgess warned that reliance on a handful of cloud compute companies makes outages broadly impactful, with past incidents like the late 2021 outage and Google Cloud disruptions showing systemic risks.
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