In addition to some Amazon services, Signal, Lyft, Fortnite and Snapchat affected
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was recovering on Monday from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world's most popular apps — including Snapchat and Reddit — and disrupted businesses globally.
AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals. Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms that rely on its cloud infrastructure.
After roughly three hours of disruptions, systems were gradually coming back online as of 6 a.m. ET, with AWS saying it was "making progress on resolving the issue" just after 8:45 a.m. ET.
"Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests," it said in an update posted just before 5:30 a.m. ET on its status page.
Amazon Web Services said in a previous update the issues were largely stemming from its US-EAST-1 Region.
Gaming, financial services affected
Ookla, owner of outage tracking website Downdetector, said over 4 million users reported issues due to the incident.
AI startup Perplexity, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and trading app Robinhood attributed the outages to AWS.
"Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. We're working on resolving it," Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a post on X.
Amazon's shopping website, PrimeVideo and Alexa were all facing issues, according to Downdetector.
